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Case Study Of Soy Products Affecting Cancer

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Soy Products Affecting Cancer In 2016, the United States estimated 1,685,210 new cancer cases will be diagnosed. Within those 1,685,210 about 595,690 of those people will die from the disease. (https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics). In 2014, the estimated number of women in the United State living with breast cancer was 3,327,552. And the number of deaths was 21.2 per 100,000 women per year. (https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/breast.html). As a possible solution to reduce the number of deaths, there has been studies showing a possibility that soy products are linked to decreasing the risk of breast and pancreatic cancer. But, still there has still been an ongoing debate as to whether soy products decrease or …show more content…

Normal cells display contact inhibition meaning when they come in contact to a neighboring cell they stop dividing. Unlike, cancer cells who do not show signs of contact inhibition leading them to stack upon each other causing the formation of a tumor.
There are two forms of tumors: benign and malignant. Benign tumors are covered by connective tissue stopping the tumor from invading neighboring tissue. The cells within the tumor closely resemble normal cells reasonably close. Even with closely resembled normal cells, if the tumor presses upon normal tissue or restricts blood supply it can become deadly. Unlike benign, malignant tumors invade neighboring tissues and don’t resemble normal cells. It travels through the blood and lymphatic vessels causing the tumor to spread around the body. Causing the cancer to grow and live within the patient's body. The tumors feeds off nutrient and oxygen received through a capillary network. The development of cancer also known as carcinogenesis can be broken down in three phases: initiation, promotion, and progression. Initiation is when a single cells undergoes a mutation that causes it to divide repeatedly. During promotion a tumor develops and the cells to divide and undergo mutations. Progression has one cell undergoing a mutation which gives it an advantage over the others, this process is repeated several times. Eventually, there is a cell that has the ability to invade neighboring tissues. Cancer is caused by a

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