Giving birth increases breast cancer risk

Women have a higher risk of breast cancer immediately after giving birth that peaks after five years but continues for more than 20 years after, a new analysis showed.   “Health care providers should consider recent childbirth a risk factor for breast cancer in young women,” the study’s authors said in an abstract published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.  Previous studies have shown that childbirth is a protective against breast cancer in the long-t erm, and overall, the lifetime risk…
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