To the editor: This is only one extra article a few research that fails to report and inform girls on statistically vital methods to scale back their danger of breast most cancers (“When should you get a mammogram? We sift through the conflicting advice,” Might 19). It’s well-known medically that the straightforward act of giving delivery reduces breast most cancers danger by 7% per child. However there may be one other well-researched danger discount technique that isn’t well-known and is nicely inside most particular person girls’s management after having a toddler.
For yearly of breastfeeding a girl completes, her lifetime danger of breast most cancers goes down by 4.3%. Breastfeeding simply two youngsters for 2 years every (a minimal period recommended by the World Well being Group and the American Academy of Pediatrics) offers that mom a 17.2% discount in breast most cancers danger. This, mixed with the act of giving delivery twice, offers a complete danger discount of 31.2%.
Ladies needs to be nicely knowledgeable on strategies of prevention/danger discount, quite than simply discovery after the actual fact.
Chele Marmet, Los Angeles
