If you only read part of this Reuters article, read the last line and the doctors involved.
Reuters Health US NEW YORK
A high-soy diet may drive breast tumor growth : study
We
have been bombarded with articles and broadcast segments assuring us that soy
is alright. When I Googled this article,
I also got a string of other links that were pro-soy.
As
I’ve mentioned here, my oncologist said at our first meeting: “If it says soy, run.”
And
I have an oncologist because I had DCIS and it was estrogen dependent, like the
majority of breast cancers. Now I will
be taking Tamoxifen for years for its estrogen-blocking effects.
My
diet had been loaded with soy from menopause on, because I did have some hot
flashes then, strangely enough when I didn’t eat on time.
My
primary doctor had suggested soy to ward off the hot flashes. I became aware of women telling each other
that soy would help. I bought the soy
milk in half gallons, and it had other benefits because cow’s milk and ice
cream irritated my sinuses. In other words,
milk gives me a runny nose.
Then
I got a job with no real lunch hour, and started keeping soy bars in my desk,
where they could be quickly hidden if a client came in. I really, really liked
them.
This went on until I saw my pathology
report after lumpectomy.
Hormone-dependent. Darn and other
words to that effect. I started tapering
off soy before I even met my oncologist, because I knew I had been taking it
for the phytoestrogens (plant estrogens.)
The
Reuters article came as a relief in some way. All this new label-reading is for a good
reason. I respect Memorial Sloan
Kettering and Georgetown. Both men quoted were very conservative in their
statements. No, lights and sirens, no scare tactics, but Dr.
V. Craig Jordan of Georgetown, said ‘“For populations of
women with breast cancer, soy products aren’t good,”’
I
feel more secure after reading this. Read
it. Then decide what’s right for you.
I
wish you health.
(PS) The title says "finally" but I just noticed that last winter Sloan Kettering had an article on this issue, which I mentioned in Febr. HEN BACKTALK
(PPS. I'm not sure of the timing on this. MD Anderson Center of Houston has a press release on line saying V. Craig Jordan would be joining them this month.)
