If you are a female who wants to have children one day, there is great news for you. Pregnancy might protect you from breast cancer. New research could help explain how pregnancy protects against breast cancer, and the findings may one day lead to a novel way to treat the disease. Investigators from the University of Albany linked the pregnancy protein alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) to slowed growth of breast cancer in rats exposed to pregnancy hormones such as estrogen, progesterone, or human chorionic gonadotropin. These hormones were shown by the researchers to induce AFP during pregnancy. Even though the researchers still need to do more studies about this matter, there is a hope to decrease the number of female patients with breast cancer in our future.
Link: http://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news20091124/pregnancy-protein-may-sslow-brea...
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