In a message dated 11/3/01 7:09:19 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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> A few years ago, 1999, our consortium wrote to the American Cancer Society to
> ask that they include more prominently the benefits of breastfeeding
> including reduction in breast cancer rates and the reply we received stated
> that because there was inconclusive data regarding protective effects
> against
> BF that the Amer Cancer Soc was not in a position to promote BF as method
> for
> preventing breast cancer.
>

Last year (when I was working at the health dept), I wrote and received a
grant from the Susan Komen Foundation for an education and screening project.
We included bfing in the prevention part and also asked the question "did you
BF" and "how long" in the history part,  before the mammograms. I thought
that would be interesting to compile that data since we were targeting about
150 women ages 40 and up. I hope the nurse who is completing the project will
provide me with that piece of data and compare it to the women who have
positive mammograms.

Barbara Whitehead, IBCLC

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