Nutrition and Lifestyle: Opportunities for Cancer Prevention, WHO, 2002

This study examines the relationship between nutrition and cancer with a multidisciplinary and multifactorial approach encompassing nutritional research, endocrinology, carcinogenesis, molecular biology and genetics.

Breastfeeding provides major protection against breast cancer, Cancer Research/UK, 18 JULY 2002

This is a summary report of results taken from 47 separate studies from 30 different countries, involving 50,000 women with breast cancer and nearly 100,000 women who did not have the disease. They found that for every year that a woman breastfeeds, her risk of breast cancer goes down by 4.3 per cent.

Pregnancy and breast cancer, Ludger Barthelmes et al, British Medical Journal

A descriptive study reviewed the effects of continuing pregnancy, termination of pregnancy, and  chemotherapy treatment during pregnancy on patients with breast cancer.

Research News, Breast Cancer.org

Up to date monthly summaries of recent breast cancer research for exciting advances, important updates, and changes in how breast cancer is treated and diagnosed.

Breast Cancer Studies abstracts on could be found on the Young Survival Organization web site

For full press release archive from February 2002 to present, please go to Cancer Research UK's official press releases.