Iodine and Breast Cancer

maize

Is there a role for iodine in breast diseases?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14965610

Is iodine a gatekeeper of the integrity of the mammary gland?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16025225

Iodine alters gene expression in the MCF7 breast cancer cell line: evidence for an anti-estrogen effect of iodine.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18645607

Seaweed May Lower Breast Cancer Risk (2005 article)
Seaweed: A Staple of Japanese Diets

http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20050202/seaweed-may-lower-breast-cancer-risk

Asians get cancer when in america
http://newsmine.org/content.php?ol=nature-health/health/cancer/asians-get-cancer-when-in-america.txt

"Foreign-born Asians have some of the lowest breast cancer rates in the world, but their risk increases quickly when they adopt a Western diet and lifestyle. "

http://www.thebreastcaresite.com/tbcs/QualityOfLife/Lifestyle/Other+Ethnic+Minorities/

Is the seaweed/iodine in the diet the difference between the rates of breast cancer in Asia and the breast cancer rates in America?

Is there a connection between iodine-deficiency caused thyroid tumors and breast cancer? Are women who live in areas away from the coastal regions where iodine from the sea is not available more likely to get breast cancer? Is there a connection between the function of the thyroid gland and breast cancer?

mary625

My naturopath told me that there is an association (not cause/effect) between hypothyroidism and breast cancer. There's a lot of women who have both conditions.

jenrio

Relationship may be complicated:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20540734 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15712375 

Needs a lot of more work to confirm what's going on. 

mary625

The links are not working, but I'll search it myself. I'm very interested in this as I have been hypothyroid with Hashimoto's since I was 18.

Layla2525

Yes, there is a connection as Christine Horner, MD noted in her book Waking the Warrior Goddess, in that breast cancer cells will absorb iodine but its toxic to them. However, normal breast cells and other cells are not harmed by regular iodine because as you know they sell iodized salt in the grocers.

Sometimes I feel like: is it tofu or iodine? is it Maybelline or was she just born that way? I mean researchers are trying to find out why is it that Asians who stay in Asia and eat traditional diets have lower rates of cancer but bring them to the USA and their rates go up? Of course,rural Chinese are gonna have lower rates of cancer! How far is it to the nearest place where they can breath smog, eat french fries or get a jelly donut? Its the price we pay for being human?