Breastfeeding and Breast Cancer

How 18th-century nuns held clue to breast cancer cure

As early as 1700, Bernardino Ramazzini, the Italian founder of occupational medicine, recognised that there was one female occupation whose members were far more likely to die from breast cancer than any other - nuns.

Experts are talking about developing a breast cancer vaccine or hormone treatment for women who don't breastfeed. Glad I breastfeed.