News, Vegetables linked to fewer breast cancers. (time, drugs)

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BOSTON, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- African-American women who eat more vegetables are less likely to develop estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer, U.S. researchers say.

Researchers at Boston University Medical Center tracked 51,928 study participants at the Boston University School of Medicine for 12 years, during which time 1,268 cases of breast cancer developed.

Vegetables linked to fewer breast cancers - UPI.com

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Sort of related to this, it has been found that eating soy is more likely to help prevent estrogen positive breast cancer than to feed it. It was commonly thought that soy was a plant based estrogen which would cancel out the effects of anti-estrogen drugs, but recent studies indicate otherwise.