Herbs and food contain phytoestrogens. Their benefit parallels that of tamoxifen in that phytoestrogens occupy estrogen receptors and are less estrogenic that those made by the body. Since it is now known that reducing caloric intake reduces estrogen levels. Recent studies find 46 percent less breast cancer among women consuming more fruit and vegetables. Women interested in preventing breast cancer could make modest changes in diet and derive better and certainly safer results.
History continues to repeat itself.
Time and time again woman have been reassured that the wonder drugs or treatments offered them would be their salvation only to discover they were exposed to harmful carcinogenic chemicals. The disasters of DES, thalidomide, silicone breast implants, Estrogen Replacement Therapy and now tamoxifen continue to demonstrate how readily women's lives have been sacrificed in the pursuit of profits. There are solutions to the breast cancer epidemic. However, they will be found more by altering lifestyle, dietary and stress factors and reducing or eliminating exposure to the many known toxic, carcinogenic chemicals that are polluting the environment than by some miraculous drug discovery. Too many women have already been maimed and their lives sacrificed to unproven and unsafe drug treatments.