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may lower breast cancer risk Breastfeeding, regardless of duration, may lower breast cancer risk by up to 30%, according to researchers. Examining data from the Carolina Breast Cancer Study, a team of investigators led by Dr. R Millikan of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, US compared rates of breast cancer between 751 mothers who had breast fed at least once and 743 mothers who had not. Breastfeeding was found to reduce the risk of breast cancer by 20% in women aged 20 to 49 and by 30% in women aged 50 to 74. Moreover, breastfeeding seemed to protect against breast cancer regardless of the number of children breastfed, mother's age at first and last lactation and menstrual history. (International Journal of Epidemiol- ogy 1999; 28:396-402) |
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