Breastfeeding Reduces Risk of ER-/PR- Breast Cancer

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Risk of estrogen receptor (ER)-negative, progesterone receptor (PR)-negative breast cancer is reduced in women who breastfeed and use of oral contraceptives (OCs) does not raise the risk of the disease. So say findings from a population-based study presented at the 11th Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research.

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