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Pregnant women and lowered breast cancer risk
Posted Jun 25th 2007 2:05PM by Brian White
Filed under: Breast Cancer
If you've ever been pregnant, I would say chances are you experienced some kind of morning sickness along the way. Although most of that experience contained things you'd like to forget, there may have been a silver lining after all.
According to a recent scientific study, women who go through morning sickness and related maladies during pregnancy
were found to have a lower chance of developing breast cancer later in life.
The reason? Well, according to the report, the hormonal balances and related changes that end up affecting breast tissue are the reason for the possible protective qualities against cancer -- and in this case, breast cancer.
Tags: breast cancer, BreastCancer
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1. Great blog, very informative to! I suggest checking out this newsletter http://www.jonbarron.org/newsletters/06/11-20-2006.php published by Jon Barron and the Baseline of Health Foundation as he covers a lot on this subject in that newsletter. It's definitely worth the read!
Posted at 9:27PM on Jun 26th 2007 by Chris Jumonville