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MISLEADING MEDIA INFORMATION"Longer breast feeding may help momsavoid cancer" this was the title of the article that appeared in New York Post on Jan 31 / 01. Andy Geller reports the study by Yale University of women in rural China, that women who breast fedt heir babies for 2 years or more cut the risk of breast cancer by 50%. This misleading information should never appear in a respectable American newspaper.I just had two patients that presented with advanced breast cancer after two years of breast feeding. The cancer grew rapidly because breast was constantly stimulated by high levels of hormones. One patient was from New York and one from California. We do not know for sure what malfunctioning gene causes cancer; we do not even know whether pregnancy could activate a dormant gene, as it does sometimes activate gene for diabetes. I have a patient who was perfectly healthy until she became pregnant, she developed diabetes during pregnancy and now she is ani nsulin dependant diabetic. Comparing women from rural China to American women, whose environment is completely different is totally unacceptable; especially that breast cancer in Chinese women is not that prevalent. The references quoted in this article are from non-clinicians who do not have any contact with patients. One is an epidemiologist and the other anathropologist. --> return to menu / back ... (click) --> return to top of the page (click) |
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