By breastfeeding, a young mother can more than halve the risk of developing breast cancer - 24 August 2009
Breastfeeding linked with reducing breast cancer
According to research of Internal Medicine, mothers who have a family history of breast cancer were 59% less likely to develop tumors before they reach the menopause if they breastfeed their children.
Inherited breast cancer is much more likely to strike younger women, and the statistics show that inherited breast cancer odds are one in three. Whereas in general, an average woman has a one in around 2,500 chance of developing breast cancer which the telegraph.co.uk has quoted on.
By breastfeeding, a young mother can more than halve the risk of developing breast cancer.
Women with a family history of breast cancer are strongly encouraged to breastfeed their babies if they can in order to minimize the possibility of getting breast cancer, as well as many other benefits to the mother and baby.
According to cancerhelp.org the longer the women had breastfed during their lifetime, the less likely they were to get breast cancer. This statement helps us to understand why there is such a large difference in the Western world and developing countries, where women tend to have more children, therefore breastfeeding for longer in their lives.
These findings may be due to the differences in diets in the western and developing worlds, but they may also be useful to explain in the rates of breast cancer.
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