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减少乳腺癌风险：哺乳的原因 Cutting Breast Cancer Risk: Reason to Breastfeed Katherine A. Dettwyler, PhD TexasAMUniversity From: LEAVEN, Vol. 35 No. 2, April-May 1999, p. 29 Between the two factors, havin been breastfed oneself and breastfeedin one‘‘s own children, one could reduce the risk of breast cancer by almost half. Now breast cancer strikes about one in eight women over the course of their lifetimes. If one could reduce the chances to one in 16, that would be worth doin , I would think. 有两个因素可以让乳腺癌的发病率降低一半，吃过母乳和哺乳过自己的孩子。当今大约八分 之一的女性会在一生中患乳腺癌。我认为，如果这一比例下降至十六分之一，那么这就是值 得去做的。 These studies do not promise anyone that they won‘‘t get breast cancer if they were breastfed and breastfeed their own children; they merely lower the risk by half. Chances are good that you won‘‘t get breast cancer no matter what you do - as seven out of eight women don‘‘t. You can play the odds, or you can change the way you live to reduce your risk. 这些研究不能保证那些吃过母乳和母乳喂养过自己孩子的人不患乳腺癌，但是它们能降低一 半风险。很可能你怎样做都不会得乳腺癌-因为有八分之七的女性可以幸免。你可以赌一 赌,或者你可以改变生活方式来降低风险。 It is interestin to look at the steady rise in incidence of breast cancer over the last few decades in light of this new information. Let me use my own mother as an example.Shewas born in 1920,when almost all babieswere still breastfed for several years; her mother breastfed her. Thus she got the first type of protection. By the time she started havin children in the late 1940s and up to the mid 1950s, many women were not breastfeedin their children anymore (although my mother did). That means that there was an entire cohort of women who had been breastfed as infants, but didnotbreastfeedtheirownchildren.Thustheygotthefirsttypeofprotection, but notthe second.As they aged,theywere at greater riskfor breastcancer than their mothers and grandmothers had been (because their mothers and grandmothers had had both types of protection). 鉴于这类新信息，我们有趣地发现在过去的几十年中乳腺癌的发病率稳步上升。我来举个我 妈妈的例子。她生于1920年，那时候几