>The rise in breast cancer (which certainly exists throughout the West)
>has to be among younger women to have any connection with breastfeeding
>practices down the generations...I refer to Kathy's interesting speculation
>that today's women have doubly poor protection, by not having been bf
>themselves and by not being breastfeeders. However, I think I am right in
>saying that the greatest rise of br cancer is in the 'very old' age group,
>that is the over 75s.

Heather raises a VERY interesting question.  So -- someone out there must
know.  Is the "epidemic" of breast cancer in western industrialized
countries in the last few decades mostly confined to older women, or is it
among younger women, and how young?  Anyone have statistics by age decade at
diagnosis?

Kathy Dettwyler

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