AUDIO 5 - BREAST CANCER

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Exercise and keeping a healthy are two things that doctors say might help women lower their risk of breast cancer.
Mothers may reduce their risk if they breastfeed for at least four months. For older women, hormone replacement therapy can lower the risk of some other . But it has been found to increase the risk of breast cancer.
So women should consider their choices . The same may be said for diet.
New findings show that women who eat a lot of red meat have higher rates of breast cancers called hormone-receptor positive. The growth is fed by the levels of estrogen or hormone, progesterone, in the body.
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, reported the findings as part of a health study of . The researchers followed the health of more than ninety women from nineteen ninety-one to two thousand three.
Those who the most red meat ate than one and one-half servings a day. A serving was defined as roughly eighty-four grams. Those ate the least red meat ate less than three servings a week.