Breast Cancer Threat Diminished Through Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding was discovered to be a strong factor that can prevent malignant cancer growths in the breast. While it doesn’t work for women who have no family cancer history, the difference it creates for high-risk women with a positive family history is quite a considerable one.

A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine gives an impressive figure: women who have breast cancer handed down in their family can lower the possibility of developing cancer growth in the breast by 59 percent through nursing their babies.

Scientists say that breastfeeding diminishes or prevents engorgement and inflammation of the breast – the factors that are highly conducive to developing breast cancer. It helps normalize breast tissue and bring it back to its pre-pregnancy state at a quicker pace.

Nursing was found to produce effects similar to taking the hormone therapy tamoxifen that is prescribed to prevent breast cancer.

Another effective anti-cancer measure is a certain medication that reduces the production of breast milk; it can decrease breast cancer threat by 42 percent.

All that makes nursing greatly advisable for women with a positive family history for the disease to escape the looming danger.

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