New Paper:
Prolonged lactation reduces ovarian cancer risk in Chinese women.
M Zhang, X Xie, A H Lee, and C W Binns
Eur J Cancer Prev. 2004; 13: 499. [MEDLINE Citation]

This kind of thinking became concrete to me when the vet said our female
bunny would have to have to be "fixed" or she'll die early of uterine (or
was it ovarian?) cancer. If she were allowed to have multiple litters, she
would not get cancer. Thinking about breast cancer, it occurred to me that
women "naturally" had very few menses -- either they were pregnant or
lactating. The regular high estrogen levels of non-lactation are not meant
to be and are now very detrimental to our health. The pregnancies
themselves have other hormone-altering functions that we depend on I'm
sure.

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