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Breast cancer risk in women: the protective role of pregnancy.
Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987) - 1 Jan 2000
Costarelli Vassiliki, Yiannakouris Nikos
Abstract excerpt
Many countries have experienced a pronounced shift towards later childbearing in recent years. Having children later in life has become a characteristic of contemporary fertility in affluent societies. Childbearing, particularly at a younger age, has been shown consistently to reduce the risk of breast cancer in the long term. Breast cancer constitutes the most common cancer in women and is an important public...
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