The new study is in Lancet, and it was data pulled from that giant longitudinal study of nurses. I heard about it from Queen Martha in Ohio who is currently not on LactNet. From her description, she said the authors state that nursing one baby gives protection against breast cancer compared to nursing no baby, but that *overall* there is no relationship. I don't know what that means. I will have to go look at it myself before I comment further. But there are plenty of studies showing a definite protective benefit from breastfeeding, so please don't everyone conclude that this new study invalidates all the old ones. Please, please, will someone do a study where the women are actually breastfeeding for a reasonable length of time, like 2-3 years per child for 4-5 children? By reasonable I mean "natural" or "evolutionarily expected." Kathy Dettwyler