Women with high blood levels of an oestrogen-like compound found in soya may be at lower risk of developing breast cancer. Researchers at the National Cancer Centre in Tokyo, Japan, followed 24,000 Japanese women aged from 40 to 90 and found that those with the highest levels of the isoflavone genistein were 65 per cent less likely to develop the disease than those with lower levels.

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