On its
website, NBC News (3/25, Fox) reports, "Soy foods, long
shown to help lower the risk of cancer, may also help people survive at least
some forms of cancer better," according to research published in the
Journal of Clinical Oncology. This finding, "lends support to the idea
that adding soy foods to the diet can help people in multiple ways, says Dr.
Jyoti Patel, a lung cancer specialist at Northwestern University in Chicago,
who was not involved in the study." According to Patel, "Although the
risks are probably different for American women for developing lung cancer, I
do think it is a call to action for more research about how we develop lung
cancer." NBC News adds, "For the study, Gong Yang and colleagues at
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Shanghai Cancer Institute, and the
National Cancer Institute looked at data from a large study of Chinese women
called the Shanghai Women's Health Study."
The Tennessean (3/25,
Wilemon, 120K) reports that, among those in the study diagnosed with lung
cancer, women "who had a history of eating soy-rich diets were 20 percent
more likely to be alive a year after diagnosis than those who had not."
The Tennessean points out that the "study received federal funding from
the National Cancer Institute."
Medscape (3/26,
Mulcahy) reports, "'This is the first scientific evidence that soy has a
favorable effect on lung cancer survival,' said Dr. Patel, who is a
spokesperson for the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and provided
independent comment on the study." Dr. Patel told Medscape Medical News
that "soy may have a mechanism of action similar to drugs like
tamoxifen."
Source:
ASCO news
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