Environmental Risks and Breast Cancer

• Cleaning Products
• Contraceptives and HRT
• Plastics
• Personal Care Products
• Soy: Risk or not?
• Air and Dust
• Industrial Chemicals
• Metals
• Pesticides and Herbicides
• Radiation
• Water
• Budgetwise Solutions

Soy: Practical Suggestions

What does it mean?

• Eating soy and other phytoestrogen-rich vegetables as part of a normal diet will not hurt, and may slightly help protect against risk of breast cancer in adult women.
• Including soy and other phytoestrogen-rich vegetables in the regular diets of very young girls and adolescents may have a more protective effect on later development of breast cancer.
• If women with breast cancer enjoy soy products, continued use within a normal diet is healthful.
• However, for women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer and who have not regularly eaten soy products in their diet, beginning to take high-concentration soy, genistein or isoflavone supplements is not advised.