It is a general opinion that the Western diet plays a significant role in increasing the risk of
breast cancer in the Western World. Recently some likely mechanisms involved in …

Breast cancer, prostate cancer, coronary heart disease and colon cancer belong to the so-
called Western diseases and a general opinion is that diet is a significant or even the main …

Breast cancer incidence and mortality are high in the western world compared to countries
in Asia (World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, 1997) …

CEREAL FOODS WORLD/77 undergo enterohepatic circulation. Lignans that reach the
kidney are excreted in the urine as glucuronide conjugates (22). The major sources of …

bft; 01oct00 Page 1 BioFactors 12 (2000) 89–93 89 IOS Press Mini-review Food containing
phytoestrogens, and breast cancer H. Adlercreutza,∗ , W. Mazura, K. Stumpfa, A. Kilkkinenb …

The incidence of hormone-dependent cancers, such as those of the breast and prostate, is
much lower in Eastern countries such as China and Japan in comparison with the Western …

Because many diseases of the Western Hemisphere are hormone-dependent cancers, we
have postulated that the Western diet, compared to a vegetarian or semivegetarian diet, may …

To the extent that diet is involved in the etiology of breast cancer, its effect may be mediated,
in part, through hormonal mechanisms. It has been suggested that the consumption of …

Phytoestrogens, which are widely distributed in plants, are structurally similar to mammalian
estrogens and can thus bind weakly to estrogen receptors (1). The 3 major classes of …

Results from epidemiological and experimental studies indicate that phytoestrogens may
protect against breast cancer. Because one of the biological effects of phytoestrogens is …