Soy and Reduced Breast Cell Proliferation

• A Review of the Clinical and Epidemiologic Evidence Relevant to the Impact of Postdiagnosis Isoflavone Intake on Breast Cancer Outcomes.

  • 2025-03-25
  • Review
  • Current nutrition reports 14(1)
  • • Mark Messina
    • Sarah Nechuta

  • PubMed: 40131602
  • DOI: 10.1007/s13668-025-00640-5

  4 Insights on

  • Reduced Breast Cell Proliferation

  • Low evidence
  • Clinical

  extensive clinical research indicates that neither soy foods nor isolated isoflavones affect markers of breast cancer risk including mammographic density and breast cell proliferation

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  approximately 50 mg isoflavones (two servings of traditional Asian soy foods daily)