THIS FROM THE COMMENTS SECTION WARRANTS BEING COPIED AND PASTED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE…..
Vitamin D Deficiency Yet Again
Actually soy is not even in the ballpark in terms of reducing breast cancer.
Vitamin D in the optimal range of 50-80 ng/ml PREVENTS up to 80% of all breast cancer.
For those with the diagnosis, vitamin D improves 11 year survival up to 70% vs those with deficiencies (women with breast cancer are vitamin D deficiency as a rule).
An Open Letter to the New York Times
by Dr. Cedric F. Garland, Dr. P.H.
12/7/09
Editor, New York Times:
We have closely followed the stories in the Times about the mammography controversy. The coverage has been thorough and superb.
The controversy is about a procedure that, at best, reduces mortality by 15% and does nothing toward primary prevention.
It is not widely realized that most breast cancer is preventable. While the scientific literature reveals many strategies for prevention of breast cancer, the simplest is elimination of the vitamin D deficiency. This is the main known cause of breast cancer. Raising the serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level to 40-60 ng/ml could prevent 75-80% of breast cancer incidence (and deaths, of course).
While deciding on the issue of mammography, action can be taken today to raise the serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D to appropriate levels.
Sincerely yours,
Cedric F. Garland, Dr. P.H., F.A.C.E.
Professor
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
University of California San Diego
Participating Member
Moores UCSD Cancer Center
La Jolla, California
858-534-0520
This is serious business!
See: Grassroots Health
Also:
http://www.asco.org/ASCOv2/Meetings/Abstracts?&vmview=abst_detail_view&confID=55&abstractID=31397
via Soy May Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrence: Study – US News and World Report.