A new study conducted in collaboration with the Shanghai Cancer Institute and the Vanderbilt University Medial Center in Nashville has posited that a tofu and soy-rich diet may increase life expectancy of women afflicted with lung cancer. According to study author Dr. Gong Yang, associate professor of medicine, division of epidemiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, this study, conducted among 75,000 women in Shanghai indicated that "patients with the highest soy food intake had better overall survival compared with those with the lowerst intake." While this research focussed on soy intake before a lung cancer diagnosis, thus rendering a recommendation to increase soy intake specifically for lung cancer survival as perhaps too superficial at this point, it does offer new perspectives into alternative medicine for lung cancer, "the leading cause of death among women in the world."
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Source mentioned: Yang G, et al. Prediagnosis soy food consumption and lung cancer survival in women. J Clin Oncol. 2013 Mar 25. PMID: 23530109
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