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Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:04:57 EDT
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In a message dated 9/26/2005 8:49:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
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Please help  with this article that I find reckless being on the ACS  website.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Breastfeeding_Can_Reduce_A_
Womans_Risk_Of_Breast_Cancer.asp


Dear Colleagues:
    I wonder what is reckless about this article.
    It is a report of a new meta-analysis, showing what  we all 
know.......that breastfeeding and childbearing are protective against  breast cancer.
    The reporter makes some interesting comments about  childbearing 
practices that have some impact on the increase in breast  cancer rates. Many women in 
developed countries don't have as many babies nor do  they breastfeed as long 
as they did in the past, nor do they have babies at such  young 
ages.............we can't recommend that women start having babies at 18  and have 7 babies 
just to protect against breast cancer. However, women can  breastfeed for a 
longer time..............
    It is sad when the article says that the  protective benefit of 
breastfeeding is small, and that women at high risk should  take tamoxifen; however, 
those comments are small, and at the very end of the  article. Other 
meta-analysis have found the protective effect of breastfeeding  to be much larger.
    warmly,

Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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