Here is a link to one of many articles that came out in July 2002 about a metastudy that 
found that breastfeeding dramatically reduces the risk of breast cancer.  Why everyone in 
the world seems to act as though this study never came out, I cannot begin to understand.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2570

Also, here is my question about the decline in HRT being responsible for the drop in breast 
cancer rates:  If the theory behind this is that the estrogen deprivation keeps breast 
cancers from developing, then why is all the current coverage of the 7% drop studiously 
ignoring the fact that breastfeeding *also* reduces estrogen?  Breastfeeding initiation rates 
have gone from something like 20% in 1970 to 70% now.  Am I missing the reason why no 
one (in any of the major media coverage, anyway) is hypothesizing that the increase in 
breastfeeding rates is related to the decrease in breast cancer rates? 

Kerry Ose, PhD

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