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Poll Question: Did you breast feed your children?
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33 [47.83%]
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    Posted: Aug 31 2008 at 5:54pm
Ladies,
 
Connie has asked me to set up a poll addressing breast feeding. Pam had posted an article on this subject just today, and it stated:
 
As reported in the journal Cancer , breast feeding for at least 6 months was found to reduce the risk for triple-negative disease (odds ratio {OR}=0.5 and to a lesser extent luminal breast cancer (OR=0.80) compared with breast feeding for less than 6 months.
 
Connie said that she would like to see if we can get more women to complete this poll, than the 78 cases of triple-negative that this study had reported. I have never set up a poll before, so Pam will have to tell me if I need to edit or change it in any way. I'm not even sure if the poll choices I selected are what we need.
Nancy
 
 


Edited by Nancy - Sep 09 2008 at 2:40pm
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Nancy the poll looks fine to me.  Maybe someone else might have a suggestion, thanks!
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I had always heard that breast feeding was a way to reduce your risk of breast cancer. I have 3 sons, all of whom I breast fed until they were a year old. Then, with no family history, at the age of 55 in June of 07 I have tnbc. So, obviously for me it didn't help, but I still would have breast fed anyway.
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Hi,

you are asking about breast feeding, i personally feel that breast feeding is for to less breast cancer the  and you can also know more about breast feeding from via searching sites about breast feeding.



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It surely didn't reduce my risk ! I breast fed 2 daughters for over a year each. 7 1/2 years later is when my tumor was found.
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Just a thought, however, there is no way to respond that you have never been pregnant.  I wonder if we should add that as an option because not breast feeding due to no pregnancy is biologically (hormonally) different than not breast feeding after a pregnancy.
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Nancy Jane,
 
I will try to do what you have suggested, but I don't believe there is another space on the poll. I'll ask Pam.
Nancy
 
 
 
I DID IT NANCY JANE!!


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Well, breastfeeding led to slow diagnosis for me.  Because I was still nursing when I found a lump in my breast, my doc and I both assumed it was mastitis, and then an abscess.  Took about 3 months before I found out it was cancer.  Just bad luck, though.
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