Dietary phytoestrogen intake—lignans and isoflavones—and breast cancer risk (Canada)
✍ Scribed by Michelle Cotterchio; Beatrice A. Boucher; Nancy Kreiger; Catherine A. Mills; Lilian U. Thompson
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 270 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0957-5243
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## Abstract A diet high in isoflavonoids (soy) is associated with lower breast cancer risk in Asian populations. Due to the low soy intake, dietary lignans may be the more important phytoestrogen class in Western populations. We used a population‐based case‐control study of breast cancer by age 50