How I came to this blog

For as long as I can remember I had been so excited about my 30th birthday. It was going to be a big year for me, I could feel it. I had no idea a breast cancer diagnosis would turn out to be the reason. I was actually told I had "early breast cancer" at 29, about three weeks before my 30th birthday. What I had is called Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS), which is also considered "stage 0 breast cancer." While it was caught at the earliest possible stage, and my life was never in immediate danger, I still had to undergo mastectomy, including lymph node removal, and reconstruction. My birthday came and went a couple weeks before my mastectomy. More than once I looked down at the "F 30" on my hospital bracelet and wondered, "where did my 30th birthday go?" This will definitely be an interesting year.















Friday, April 6, 2012

Evidence for avoiding soy after all? (In my case, anyway)

The results of a recent animal study suggest that "western women who started soy intake as adults, should stop if diagnosed with breast cancer" as Genistein (an estrogen-like compound in soy)  intake "in adult life which continues during tamoxifen treatment appears to make the tumors resistant to tamoxifen; However, if animals were fed genistein during childhood, and intake continues before and after tumors develop, the tumors are highly sensitive to the tamoxifen."  


In my case, I started eating soy as an adult, developed an estrogen-sensitive cancer and am now on Tamoxifen. So, it looks like, if I want to play it safe, I should consider avoiding soy. What will I dip my sushi in?


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