According to a new study, women with a family history of breast cancer were 59 percent less likely to develop breast cancer themselves if they breastfed their children.
“This is good news for women with a family history of breast cancer,” said Alison Stuebe, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and lead author of the study, which is published in the Aug. 10, 2009 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
“Our results suggest a woman can lower her risk of cancer simply by breastfeeding her children,” Stuebe said. Read more …