To the editor: This is only one extra article a couple of examine that fails to report and inform girls on statistically important methods to cut back their threat of breast most cancers (“When do you have to get a mammogram? We sift by the conflicting recommendation,” Could 19). It’s well-known medically that the straightforward act of giving start reduces breast most cancers threat by 7% per child. However there’s one other well-researched threat discount methodology that isn’t well-known and is effectively inside most particular person girls’s management after having a baby.
For yearly of breastfeeding a lady completes, her lifetime threat of breast most cancers goes down by 4.3%. Breastfeeding simply two kids for 2 years every (a minimal length beneficial by the World Well being Group and the American Academy of Pediatrics) offers that mom a 17.2% discount in breast most cancers threat. This, mixed with the act of giving start twice, offers a complete threat discount of 31.2%.
Girls must be effectively knowledgeable on strategies of prevention/threat discount, reasonably than simply discovery after the very fact.
Chele Marmet, Los Angeles
