Lack of breastfeeding major contributor to Western breast cancer.
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Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer and breastfeeding: collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 47 epidemiological studies in 30 countries, including 50,302 women with breast cancer and 96,973 women without the disease. Lancet 360, 187 - 196 (2002).
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Pearson, H. Breastfeeding protects against cancer. Nature (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/news020715-13
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news020715-13