A new study of women 20 years after nundergoing surgery for primary breast cancer shows that breastfeeding for longer than six months is associated with a better survival rate.
Among breast cancer sur-vivors who breastfed for greater than six months, both breast cancer mortality and overall mortality risk were less after 20 years, according to the study published in BreastfeedingMedicine, the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.
In "Breastfeeding Associated with Reduced Mortality in Women with Breast Cancer," Dr. Margaretha Loof-Johanson, Prof. Lars Brudin, and Prof. Marie Sundquist, University of Linkoping, and County Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden, and Prof. Carl Edvard Rudebeck, University of Tromso, Norway, examined the link between lifetime breastfeeding history and both breast cancer specific and overall survival among women treated for breast cancer who had lived long enough for other causes of death to contribute substantially to mortality. "This study confirms that the long-term maternal health benefits of breastfeeding are not only preventative in nature, but that it also has the capacity to reduce the severity of breast cancer," says Dr. Arthur I. Eidelman, Editor-in-Chief of Breastfeeding Medicine.
Source: The Guardian News
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