The highly prestigious medical journal the Lancet recently published an article encouraging some women to take steps to address the "hazards of their nulliparity" - that is to say, of their never having children, which is a risk factor for several cancers, particularly of the breast.
You might be thinking: we just went through the annual pink ribbon exercise in breast cancer awareness, yet we never heard about the hazards of never having children. Or beginning to have them later in life. Or that bearing several children, beginning at an early age, and breastfeeding them all is quite protective against breast and other cancers.
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