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Women that don't have children have a relative risk of 1.6 - 1.9 of getting breast cancer. what does this actually mean though?
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Breast feeding: seems to reduce your risk. If the average risk is 1, those who never had children or breast fed are 1.6-1.9 times more likely to get breast cancer. Another way to look at this is to call breast feeding a treatment. Those who "receive" it (i.e breast feed) are 1/1.9 or 50 percent less likely to get breast cancer.
Answered 11/13/2014
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