Dr. Steven
Quay calls for nutritional guidelines for adolescent girls
to reduce future breast cancer
SEATTLE, Oct. 11,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Physician-Scientist Dr.
Steven Quay, MD, PhD is calling for
nutritional guidelines for adolescent girls to reduce processed and
fast-food consumption during puberty to prevent future breast
cancer. His recommendation is based on recent research showing a
link between consumption of a particular set of chemicals produced
by the high temperatures used to fry or grill foods that have a
high level of sugars and the induction of pre-cancerous changes
during pubertal breast development. While the study was in mice,
similar changes can be seen in adolescent breast development. A
video explaining the paper and the basis of Dr. Quay's
recommendation can be found here: Breast cancer prevention
video.
"While breast cancer treatment is one of the most advanced and
successful protocols in oncology, prevention of the disease is the
next goal, an outcome that would transform women's health," said
Dr. Steven Quay, MD, PhD. "Decades
ago, I formulated a hypothesis that the seeds of future breast
cancer are sown during puberty, when the breast is undergoing
development. Breast development during puberty produces a
vulnerable window of several years of time. Any environmental
insult, including excessive chest x-rays or the toxic products from
fast-food cooking, can be amplified if it occurs during puberty.
The understanding of this link between breast development and
future breast cancer should be used to inform nutritional
guidelines for adolescent girls."
The fast-food toxins, called AGE products, were shown to cause
atypical hyperplasia in mice during puberty when they were included
in the diet. They also caused the developing breast stroma to grow
faster. In women, this stromal proliferation can be seen by
mammography as increased breast density, which is a strong,
independent predictor of breast cancer risk. Women with the highest
density are up to eight times more likely to develop breast cancer
compared to women with the least dense breasts.
Guidelines for school food programs should be developed to
decrease AGE products in the lunch menu offerings as well as an
educational program for pediatricians and parents on the dangers of
fast-food during this vulnerable development window. These simple
changes in lifestyle could have a significant impact on reducing
the 250,000 breast cancers that are diagnosed each year in
the United States.
About Steven Quay, M.D.,
Ph.D.
Dr. Steven Quay has 390+
published contributions to medicine and has been cited over 11,600
times, placing him in the top 1% of scientists worldwide. He holds
90 US patents and has invented seven FDA-approved pharmaceuticals
which have helped over 80 million people. He is the author of the
best-selling book on surviving the pandemic, Stay Safe: A
Physician's Guide to Survive Coronavirus. He is the CEO of
Atossa Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: ATOS), a clinical-stage
biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for
oncology and infectious diseases.
He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from The University of Michigan, was a postdoctoral fellow
in the Chemistry Department at MIT with
Nobel Laureate H. Gobind Khorana, a
resident at the Harvard-MGH Hospital, and spent almost a decade on
the faculty of Stanford University
School of Medicine. A TEDx talk he delivered on breast cancer
prevention has been viewed over 228,000 times. His scientific
manuscript entitled, "A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a
reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but
instead is laboratory derived," has been viewed over 240,000-times.
For more information, visit www.DrQuay.com
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