Media Coverage:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/10/26_breastfeeding.shtml

New analysis links breastfeeding to reduced risk of childhood leukemia
By Sarah Yang, Media Relations | 26 October 2004
BERKELEY - Babies who are breastfed have a lower risk of developing
childhood leukemia, according to a new analysis of 14 studies by researchers
at the University of California, Berkeley.
The paper, to be published November in the journal Public Health Reports,
found that breastfeeding was linked to lower risks of both acute
lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common of the childhood cancers, and
acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML).
(see link for whole article)


THE PAPER:
Public Health Reports
Volume 119, Issue 6, Pages 521-535 (November 2004)

ABSTRACT
http://www.publichealthreports.org/article/PIIS0033354904001335/abstract
(see link for full abstract, below is just a snip)

Objective
The authors used a meta-analytic technique to (1) quantify the evidence of
an association between duration of breastfeeding and risk of childhood acute
lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML), (2)
assess the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on any such associations,
and (3) discuss the implications of these findings for the evaluation of
whether breastfeeding reduces the risk of childhood leukemia.

Conclusions
This meta-analysis showed that both short-term and long-term breastfeeding
reduced the risk of childhood ALL and AML, suggesting that the protective
effect of breastfeeding might not be limited to ALL as earlier hypothesized.


FULL TEXT
http://www.publichealthreports.org/article/PIIS0033354904001335/fulltext



Janice Reynolds

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