Soya and cancer
Isoflavone can act either like estrogen in the body, or it's opposite.
Isoflavone in soya either binds to the alpha estrogen receptor in the body, which stimulates a tumor's growth rate, or it binds to the beta receptor, which decreases growth rate and induces apoptosis.
The impact of soya on breast cancer risk may depend on when we start eating it. Introducing soya after middle-age doesn't seem to reduce the risk or growth rate of tumors, but introducing soya before puberty appears to have a greater effect on reducing tumors.
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- No one has given people soya foods, then looked at whether they’re more or less likely to get breast cancer over time than those not given soya.
- One review of evidence into soya's effect on breast cancer risk found studies...
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