Breastfeeding Cuts Breast Cancer in High Risk Women by Fifty Nine Percent

A new study just published in the Archives of Internal Medicine has documented something that makes women with a family history of breast cancer 59 percent less likely to develop a breast malignancy themselves. The "new" and groundbreaking discovery is actually as old as humankind and totally natural -- it's breastfeeding.

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Taiwan women aged over 40 to enjoy free breast cancer screening from 2010

Taiwan's Bureau of Health Promotion has allocated a sum of NT$240 million (US$7.27 million) in its 2010 budget to provide free breast cancer screening for women aged 40or over.

Similar initiatives include Singapore Health Promotion Board's heavily subsidised mammography screening programme called BreastScreen.