Pregnancy and Breast Cancer

Pregnancy not found to increase risk of dying from breast cancer.
The AP (3/26, Cheng) reports that research presented at a European breast cancer conference suggests that "women who survive breast cancer and have children afterwards don't appear to be at any higher risk of dying from cancer." Also, "among women in the general population, those who have early and multiple pregnancies have a lower risk of getting breast cancer than women who don't." Researchers "analyzed results from 14 previous trials that followed more than 1,400 pregnant women with a history of breast cancer." They discovered "that the women who got pregnant had a 42 percent lower risk of dying compared with breast cancer survivors who did not get pregnant."