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Michele and Nicole believe that breastfeeding holds so many benefits to both mother and baby. In addition to being the best way to bond with your baby, breastfeeding also holds great importance to both your and your baby’s health. One of the most important benefits is the prevention of breast cancer. Breast cancer has affected our lives by taking someone very special away from us. Because we feel so strongly about this issue, we have decided to help in the fight against breast cancer. Beginning January 1, 2004, 2% of our profits will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. We have chosen this organization because of their involvement in studies linking breastfeeding to the decreased risk of breast cancer. |
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Not breastfeeding increases mother's risk of breast cancer It's been known for several years that breastfeeding is associated with lower rates of pre-menopausal breast cancer. Now a new study from China has concluded that a woman who breastfeeds for 24 months of her life has only half the risk of developing breast cancer as a woman who breastfeeds for 1 - 6 months. Protection increases to 75% for those who breastfeed for a total of 109 months. This held true for both pre-menopausal and post-menopausal cancers. Zheng et al, "Lactation Reduces Breast Cancer Risk in Shandong Province, China" Am. J. Epidemiol. 152 (12): 1129 Newcomb PA, Storer BE, Longnecker MP, et al. "Lactation and a reduced risk of premenopausal breast cancer." N Engl J Med. 1994;330:81-87
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Formula feeding increases baby girls' risk of developing breast cancer in later life Women who were formula-fed as infants have higher rates of breast cancer as adults. For both premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer, women who were breastfed as children, even if only for a short time, had a 25% lower risk of developing breast cancer than women who were bottle-fed as infants. Freudenheim, J. et al. 1994 "Exposure to breast milk in infancy and the risk of breast cancer". Epidemiology 5:324-331 |
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For more information on how breastfeeding can reduce both mother and baby’s risk of developing certain types of cancer visit BREASTFEEDING.COM |
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