Abortion, Miscarriage and Breast Cancer Risk. Call me fatalistic, but I have never believed that getting breast cancer was my fault. As far as I know, I didn’t get breast cancer because I didn’t exercise enough, or breast-feed my children longer than six months each, or because I got pregnant for the first time at the advanced age of 33.
Now, women who have had breast cancer can add another two factors to the list of things that did not cause their breast cancer: induced abortion or...
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