Northwestern receives $10 million for cancer prevention trials
... and compounds in teas and soybeans, including the isoflavone genistein, which has been reported effective in the treatment of prostate cancer. Raymond C. Bergan, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine, is the principal investigator for the study at Northwestern University. B...Eating soy during adolescence may reduce breast cancer
...ate that early life exposure to genistein-the main isoflavone in soybeans-seems to help protect against chemically induced breast tumors. Getting genistein early in life may help the mammary glands develop in a favorable way. Eating soy might also lead to lower levels of estrogen circulating within the body, so...Soy protein in the diet produces health benefits, regardless of isoflavone content
...t, and soy-protein diets with either a high or low isoflavone content in the context of their effects on risk fo...d reduced blood pressure in men after the high-soy isoflavone diet. A wide range of small but beneficial effects were associated with the substitution of soy-pr......apan and New Zealand. The researchers measured isoflavone levels in the urine of women from Shanghai, China,...suring soy consumption. Women with the highest isoflavone levels "experienced a 50 percent decrease in risk to develop breast cancer" compared to those with t......study, they fed pregnant female rats genistein, an isoflavone that is known to have significant estrogenic properties. Dr. Hughes said the rat study was carefully designed to take into account the obvious differences that exist in the developmental and life cycles of rats and humans, and to correlate as closel...