Comments on: Breast-Feeding May Cut Cancer Risk Among High-Risk Women http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/11/breast-feeding-may-cut-cancer-risk-among-high-risk-women/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Mario Catalan http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/11/breast-feeding-may-cut-cancer-risk-among-high-risk-women/#comment-10789 Mario Catalan Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:26:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/11/breast-feeding-may-cut-cancer-risk-among-high-risk-women/#comment-10789 Flip side to popular assumption, liposuction can make your undesirable fat vanish just like that. Undergoing plastic surgery may be an ideal option for most. Of course, that does not mean that if your skin is not where you want it to be that there is no hope for you. Your best bet is to gain more knowledge through research. Flip side to popular assumption, liposuction can make your undesirable fat vanish just like that. Undergoing plastic surgery may be an ideal option for most. Of course, that does not mean that if your skin is not where you want it to be that there is no hope for you. Your best bet is to gain more knowledge through research.

]]> By: marilyn http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/11/breast-feeding-may-cut-cancer-risk-among-high-risk-women/#comment-10788 marilyn Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:48:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/11/breast-feeding-may-cut-cancer-risk-among-high-risk-women/#comment-10788 It is not just the vain and selfish who won't breastfeed. There are women not capable of producing enough milk, HIV + status where breast feeding puts the infant at more risk, or have had previous breast surgeries for health reasons not related to augmentation that might result in nursing issues( any number of non-vain reasons including breast reduction for mental and physical health reasons and mastectomies and the not trivial, inverted nipples). Not included in this are the women who must take medication that is harmful to infants at an adult dose. Some women sacrifice their health for the period of gestation and must return to their own meds as soon as possible afterward. Personally I fed all of my children for beyond a year each but I cringe when I hear condemnation of such a personal choice and decision. I am glad to hear that there are serious considerations of altenatives that might just be related to physiology and with minimal use of pharmaceuticals. This is exciting and not quite revolutionary news. The breast cancer/breast feeding relationship has been bandied about in the past. That it might be as powerful as tamoxifen is something else entirely. I forsee a win win for at risk women without any wish for children donating (or banking) their milk for other infants use. The organization oversight on that boggles the mind but then again.... It is not just the vain and selfish who won’t breastfeed. There are women not capable of producing enough milk, HIV + status where breast feeding puts the infant at more risk, or have had previous breast surgeries for health reasons not related to augmentation that might result in nursing issues( any number of non-vain reasons including breast reduction for mental and physical health reasons and mastectomies and the not trivial, inverted nipples). Not included in this are the women who must take medication that is harmful to infants at an adult dose. Some women sacrifice their health for the period of gestation and must return to their own meds as soon as possible afterward.
Personally I fed all of my children for beyond a year each but I cringe when I hear condemnation of such a personal choice and decision.
I am glad to hear that there are serious considerations of altenatives that might just be related to physiology and with minimal use of pharmaceuticals. This is exciting and not quite revolutionary news. The breast cancer/breast feeding relationship has been bandied about in the past. That it might be as powerful as tamoxifen is something else entirely.
I forsee a win win for at risk women without any wish for children donating (or banking) their milk for other infants use. The organization oversight on that boggles the mind but then again….

]]> By: Sigmunds signal http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/11/breast-feeding-may-cut-cancer-risk-among-high-risk-women/#comment-10787 Sigmunds signal Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:31:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/11/breast-feeding-may-cut-cancer-risk-among-high-risk-women/#comment-10787 What kind of vain, selfish woman won't breast feed to begin with? Besides the reduced health risks to the mother, what about the child? Childbirth is a miracle of nature, and some women will sacrifice their babies lifelong physical immunity, and emotional well being, just to keep their boobs from sagging for an extra five years! With all of the breast augmentation in our society, and the ideals placed upon an unrealistic body images, its no wonder western culture looks so ridiculous! What kind of vain, selfish woman won’t breast feed to begin with? Besides the reduced health risks to the mother, what about the child? Childbirth is a miracle of nature, and some women will sacrifice their babies lifelong physical immunity, and emotional well being, just to keep their boobs from sagging for an extra five years! With all of the breast augmentation in our society, and the ideals placed upon an unrealistic body images, its no wonder western culture looks so ridiculous!

]]> By: Wesley http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/11/breast-feeding-may-cut-cancer-risk-among-high-risk-women/#comment-10786 Wesley Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:37:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/11/breast-feeding-may-cut-cancer-risk-among-high-risk-women/#comment-10786 They could test the idea by inducing lactation in high-risk childless women and compare them to a control group (admittedly in this case they wouldn't be able to use a placebo for the control group). It could become a prophylactic treatment for high-risk women that don't have or don't plan on having children. In a completely different vein, why haven't they tried inducing lactation in women trying to lose weight, considering the number of calories lost through breastmilk... They could test the idea by inducing lactation in high-risk childless women and compare them to a control group (admittedly in this case they wouldn’t be able to use a placebo for the control group). It could become a prophylactic treatment for high-risk women that don’t have or don’t plan on having children.

In a completely different vein, why haven’t they tried inducing lactation in women trying to lose weight, considering the number of calories lost through breastmilk…

]]> By: cory http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/11/breast-feeding-may-cut-cancer-risk-among-high-risk-women/#comment-10785 cory Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:13:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/08/11/breast-feeding-may-cut-cancer-risk-among-high-risk-women/#comment-10785 The comment regarding a "dose- response relationship" sounds reasonable on the surface. But it strikes me that it's the process of lactating itself, the hormonal changes involved in both the breast itself and the circulating levels of oxytoxin and prolactin involved in breastfeeding, and the fact that breastfeeding in general lowers estrogen levels for several months that needs to be looked at. Every woman who has breastfeed for a long term knows that breastfeeding an infant will keep your levels low (ie, your period and your fertility absent) for several months but eventually your body re-adjusts and nursing can continue along with monthly cycles and even subsequent pregnancies. After that initial 6 months or so levels go back to normal, just with the additional nursing feedback loop. However the biological changes in the breast itself due to the physical act of nursing are a one-per-pregnancy thing--could those changes themselves be what is the protective effect, not the duration of nursing, but the act of changing from a non-lactating body to a lactating one? This happens with each pregnancy. Does the risk of breast cancer go down with each child breastfed, or do the numbers stay the same regardless of number of pregnancies? The comment regarding a “dose- response relationship” sounds reasonable on the surface. But it strikes me that it’s the process of lactating itself, the hormonal changes involved in both the breast itself and the circulating levels of oxytoxin and prolactin involved in breastfeeding, and the fact that breastfeeding in general lowers estrogen levels for several months that needs to be looked at.
Every woman who has breastfeed for a long term knows that breastfeeding an infant will keep your levels low (ie, your period and your fertility absent) for several months but eventually your body re-adjusts and nursing can continue along with monthly cycles and even subsequent pregnancies. After that initial 6 months or so levels go back to normal, just with the additional nursing feedback loop.
However the biological changes in the breast itself due to the physical act of nursing are a one-per-pregnancy thing–could those changes themselves be what is the protective effect, not the duration of nursing, but the act of changing from a non-lactating body to a lactating one? This happens with each pregnancy. Does the risk of breast cancer go down with each child breastfed, or do the numbers stay the same regardless of number of pregnancies?

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