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Nutra Solutions July 1, 2005	Soy Claims Count Regular consumption of soy protein-containing foods and beverages may reduce the risk of breast cancer in women by as much as 22%, reports a study published in The International Journal of Cancer Prevention.
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ifeminists October 29, 2002 Rondi Adamson	Re-Evaluating the Risk of Breast Cancer As breast cancer became a poster disease for feminism in the 1980s, the attention it began to receive took on unreasonable proportions. In short, the intensity of funding, publicity and research around breast cancer is not based on need. It is based on politics.
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