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Having More Babies and Later in Life Can Reduce Cancer Risk
LOS ANGELES, July 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Malcolm Pike, a researcher at the University of Southern California and his colleagues reported in Wednesday's issue of the journal Fertility & Sterility that late pregnancy seems to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer. The researchers' statistical investigation found that women who had their last children after the age of 35 had a 58 percent lower risk of ovarian cancer compared with women who had never had a child.
What is more, the researchers seem to have found that having many children reduces risk even more. Women who had four or more children had a 64 percent lower risk than women who had never given birth. The researchers interviewed 477 ovarian cancer patients and 660 healthy women.
"We asked was it true for women who only had one baby, was it true for women who only had two babies," Pike said in an interview with Reuters. "We found it was pretty consistent."
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