JAMA Oncol: Shock! Mothers with more than 30% less risk of ovarian cancer after more than 1 year of breastfeeding

15 April 2020 /
Biovalley BIOON/- An international study found that women who breastfed their babies had a nearly 25 percent lower risk of developing ovarian cancer studies also show that the longer women breastfeed, the greater the risk reduction senior Australian author Professor Penelope Webb, head of the Queensland Medical Research Institute's (QIMR) Berghofer Gynaecological Cancer Group, said breastfeeding could reduce the risk of all ovarian cancer, including the most deadly high-level plasma cancer Image source: http://cn.bing.com
Professor Webb said: "Overall, breastfed women had a 24 per cent lower risk of developing ovarian cancer, and even those who breastfed for three months or less had an 18 per cent lower risk of developing ovarian cancer Mothers who breastfed their children for more than 12 months had a 34 percent lower risk of developing the disease Importantly, the benefits of breastfeeding last at least 30 years after women stop breastfeeding More than 1000 women died of ovarian cancer in Australia in 2019, accounting for nearly 5 per cent of cancer deaths last year, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare only about 45 percent of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer can survive at least five years after diagnosis Said the international study was carried out by researchers from the Ovarian Cancer Society, who studied data from 9,973 ovarian cancer patients and 13,843 controlled women from around the world she said: "Previous studies have shown that breastfeeding can reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, but some studies have found no link between the two We therefore hope to clarify this relationship through a larger study The study shows a link between breastfeeding and reducing the incidence of ovarian cancer, and reinforces the World Health Organization's recommendation that mothers should only breastfeed for at least six months If they can continue to do so, they can continue to feed for more than two years by adding supplementary foods "
studies have also shown that even short periods of breastfeeding can help reduce the risk of cancer " study builds on previous work at the institute, which found that breastfeeding was also associated with a lower risk of endometrial cancer Professor Webb says more research is needed to determine how breastfeeding affects cancer risk The findings were published in JAMA Oncology (BioValleyBioon.com) References: 1
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, JAMA Oncology (2020) DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.0421