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Pregnancy and breastfeeding correlates to reduced breast cancer risk

As early as 1700, Bernardino Ramazzini, the Italian founder of occupational medicine, recognised that there was one female occupation whose members were far more likely to die from breast cancer than any other – nuns.
Evidence for the protective effect of having children and breastfeeding has accumulated in the years since.
There have been debates over which [...]

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