Soy foods, long shown to help lower the risk of cancer, may also help people survive at least some forms of cancer better.
March 26/New York/NBC News -- Soy foods, long shown to help lower the risk of cancer, may also help people survive at least some forms of cancer better, researchers reported. They found that Chinese women who ate the most soy were also less likely to die of lung cancer, the number-one cancer killer across the world.
The findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, 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.