New Study Finds Soy Stops Prostate Cancer Spread
March 17th, 2008 Posted in prostate cancer preventionA new animal study from Northwestern University has added to a body of research suggesting that soy could prove helpful in the fight against prostate cancer spreading to other parts of the body.
The same research team established the mechanism by which genistein, an antioxidant from soy, inhibits detachment of cancer cells from a primary prostate tumour and represses cell invasion: by blocking activation of p38 MAP kinases molecules.
The findings of this new study, which appears in the March 15 issue of Cancer Research, give a new basis for hope that genistein could help prevent the spread of prostate cancer in patients.
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