Soy and progest. cream

MsSherry

Are these safe to use in high risk women? I take a soy suppliment and also use a proges. cream to help with hot flashes. I have read that both can cause breast cancer.

MsSherry

Anyone??

Anonymous

MissSherry--I don't really know the final answer. I think they advise women who have estrogen positive bc to stay away from soy amd estrogen containing creams.  I have LCIS (a non-invasive bc) and I have always tried to avoid anything like that, but recently tried a soy tablet per my gyn AND my onc suggestion (didn't help any with any menopausal symptoms, so I said forget it), as they said it was OK in moderation.
 So I guess each doctor feels diferently on the subject.  I feel safer not taking it myself.

wallycat

I just saw my oncologist again on Friday and asked him about soy and flax.

He's originally from MD Anderson and attends a TON of cancer conferences.

The concensus it seems is that pills/concentrated anything is possibly bad and should be avoided.

Soy in real food like tofu or soymilk, flax sprinkled on cereal or baked in bread...these are all fine and will unlikely cause any issues.

The isolated, over-dosaged stuff in pills is what he objected to.

MsSherry

Thanks.  I think it would be best then to stay away.  I am very lumpy (scheduled lumpectomy/core biopsy).  My family history (mom, mgma, pgma, sis, aunt) all had ER+ breast cancers.

darkfairy

I had ER+ and PR+ tumours (pre cancerous) but wasn't told anything about eating soya (I'm vegan) or using progesterone cream(which I was using for period pains). I've been making benign tumours since I was about 14, which was long before I turned vegan or used the creams so I guess the reasoning was that it hadn't really changed my situation. I know a herbalist advised me not to take agnus castus, which you're supposed to avoid if you have hormonal cancers. It's a controversial topic and one there's no definite answer to yet

sherry7

all the research I have found, being possitive.  I read more than not that say don't use these things, so as not to have another thing to worry about, I don't.  I led the typical healthy vegan massage therapist diet and excercised, nursed the babies, used progesterone cream when the flashes hit and always had soy in diet...till diagnosed in oct two years ago...so much has changed, not just food.  At first I was even afraid of food, pretty silly huh... Good luck in your journey to health and healing, sherry

Traci-----TripNeg

Jeez MissSherry,

I'm so sorry to hear about your family history.

I thought mine was bad....please don't take everything you read to heart. Did you see the new list of "12 things that will give you breast cancer". Good Lord. We might as well not eat, drink, drive, work or live in order to avoid it.

Good luck girl.

Hugs, Traci