There is a cancer link to just about everything. I don't put much stock in anything like this.

Also, I think that bashing western culture for their diet is very ethnocentric. If I were to say that eastern culture was bad, people would be all over me.

The 2006 was by the Harvard Medical School study based on epidemiological studies. (Red Meat Intake and Risk of Breast Cancer Among Premenopausal Women -Eunyoung Cho, ScD)
The findings were published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (Vol. 293, No. 2: 172-182), are based on a long-term study of nearly 149,000 adults between the ages of 50 and 74.


The link to red meat consumption and bowel and colon cancer has also been found in the ACS (American Cancer Society) of 2005.

Many epidemiological studies show that a high intake of red meat bolsters colon cancer risk. The reasons are unclear but could include carcinogens. A 2005 American Cancer Society study of 149,000 adults found that those who ate the most red meat had a 40% higher risk of colon cancer. The AICR panel calls the red meat/colon cancer link very convincing.

Another study supported the claim that eating red meat increases the risk of colorectal, lung, liver and oesophaegal cancer.

Source: Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America)

I haven't come across any medical research papers on the link of soy and breast cancer. can you please site references as I'm very interested in the whole topic.

I have come across medical papers supporting the benefits of soy in preventing prostate cancer (Source: University of California at San Francisco and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, 2005)

Also, that countries with differing diets from U.S and other western cultures have very different cancer rates. The Japanese have lower rates of prostate and breast cancer than the U.S., a fact attributed to their greater intake of soy and low-fat foods (Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2005)

There's also a breast cancer link to soy....

My thoughts: where is this research, and who is it by? A link would be nice, or something to let us know this research actually happened and wasn't performed by PETA scientists.