What about Soy???

evergreen · 11-14-2012, 06:26 PM

I am same profile as you. I have tofu about once a week. I think the issue with soy is more for ER+ or PR + folks. I would not take soy supplements though. But then I don't take many supplements, just Omega 3, calcium and Vit D.
There are other folks on this support site more experienced than me, however, and I would like them to comment too.

rhondalea · 11-14-2012, 06:41 PM

There are several entries for soy in this list:

http://foodforbreastcancer.com/food-list.php

Some forms of soy are good; others not so much. Edited to add: Apparently it's not so good for us HER2+ women:

On the other hand, a small Korean study reported that soybean and soy isoflavone consumption was found to be associated with increased risk of recurrence among women with HER2/neu overexpressing (HER2+) tumors, whereas it reduced risk of relapse in women with HER2- disease.

I believe there's currently a study in which women are given a soy pill to take daily for a year, but I don't think results will be ready for some time. (You can find information about it on the Army of Women site.)

As for me, I wouldn't eat soy unless there were nothing else available, and even then, I'd have to be pretty hungry. Soy has a terrible effect on the thyroid gland.