Fred Hutchinson Quotes (3 Quotes)

The take-home message is that this study gives us a more definitive reason that breast-feeding is one way to reduce risk of breast cancer,

Smoking appears to confer a modest elevation in breast cancer risk, ... Certainly this relationship is not as strong as the relationship between smoking and lung cancer or smoking and heart disease, but breast cancer may be another disease to add to the long list of diseases associated with smoking.

On the whole, the use of estrogen with progestin HRT does not appear to be associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in middle-aged women.