This is a really good booklet that explains breast cancer risks, how
exposure to estrogen relates to breast cancer, and how breastfeeding
decreases breast cancer.  Very well explained.

http://www.bcpinstitute.org/booklet.htm

My one criticism is that, despite a clear explanation of how breastfeeding
reduces risk, breastfeeding is not specifically listed as a strategy to
reduce risk, in that section of the booklet.  Several mom have written the
authors, and have been told that has been corrected in the second edition.
(I'm not sure what that means - I suppose there is a print edition that has
been changed?)

Janice Reynolds






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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