Women with a strong history of breast cancer face few options to preventing the disease. For those who carry the faulty BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, giving them an almost 3 in 4 chance of developing breast cancer during their lifetime, a double mastectomy is the price some are willing to pay to avoid breast cancer. However, a new study finds there is good news for women at such a high risk for breast cancer, and that is the impact of breastfeeding for more than a year.
The study conducted by the Women's Research Institute in Ontario, Canada, looked at almost 6,000 women with both the... Read More »