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- Title
Long-term breastfeeding, especially of first child, lowers breast cancer risk.
- Authors
Hollander, D.
- Abstract
This article reports that long-term breastfeeding especially of first child lowers the risk of breast cancer. Women who breastfeed for as few as 1-3 months throughout their lives are at a slightly reduced risk, and those who spend more than 36 months breastfeeding benefit from a substantial protective effect. Among parous women, those who had ever breastfed had a substantially lower risk of breast cancer than those who had never done so, it is similar for premenopausal and postmenopausal women. Long-term breastfeeding of the first liveborn baby substantially reduces a woman's odds of breast cancer adjusting for potentially confounding factors. A weaker overall effect is apparent for long-term breastfeeding when a second baby is concerned and the effect is significant only for postmenopausal women. The patterns of breastfeeding are changing among Mexican women, young women tend not to breastfeed or do so for relatively short period. The risk decreases as the number of children breastfed increases and this association is evident for both pre-menopausal and postmenopausal women.
- Subjects
BREASTFEEDING; BREAST cancer; MENOPAUSE; CHILDBIRTH; DISEASES in women; PREGNANCY
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1996, Vol 28, Issue 5, p239
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135846