Soy May Reduce the Risk of Colorectal Cancer

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 04:56 in Health & Medicine

A new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition explores how soyfood consumption may lower the risk of colorectal cancer, or cancer of the colon or rectum, in postmenopausal women. According to the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 71,560 American women were diagnosed with the fourth most common cancer in 2008.

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