Friday, September 10, 2010

Breast-Feeding May Lower Breast Cancer Risk

August 21, 2009 by Medical Dude  
Filed under Medical News

Women who breast-feed their babies even for short periods of time may lower their risk of developing premenopausal breast cancer if they have a family history of the disease.
“We saw a 59 percent lower risk of breast cancer among women with a family history who had ever breast-fed,” stated Dr. Alison Stuebe, lead author of [...]