National Cancer Research Center
Miso for breast cancer? - goodnews - findinds of study by National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan - Brief Article Women of the West, it may be time to follow the example of your Asian sisters: Eat more miso soup with its soy isoflavones if you want to reduce your breast-cancer risk. In Japan, where women on average consume 700 times more isoflavones than you do, thanks in part to miso soup, their breast cancer risk is just a fraction of yours.
This suggestion is based on a study by the National Cancer Center Research Institute in Tokyo, released last June. Of 21,000 middle-aged Japanese women studied across 10 years, only 179 developed breast cancer. Women who ate the most miso soup--2-3 cups daily-along with other isoflavone-filled foods such as soybeans and tofu were least likely to suffer the disease.
But Japanese researchers would only say the study shows a "probable" link between soy/isoflavones and reduced breast cancer risk.
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