The New York Times recently ran a story detailing results of a large study by a team from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health. That team, using data from the Nurses’ Health Study II, which ran from 1993 to 2003 and included over 100,000 women, reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine that they found no connection between abortion, miscarriage and breast cancer.
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Abortion, Miscarriage and Breast Cancer Risk: NCI Fact Sheet
A woman's hormone levels normally change throughout her life for a variety of reasons, and these hormonal changes can lead to changes in her breasts.... Read more »
Neither Abortion Nor Miscarriage Associated with Breast Cancer...
Physicians have known for years that women who have more to term pregnancies appear to be somewhat protected against developing breast cancer. Women... Read more »
Migraines Linked to Reduced Breast Cancer Risk
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