Why having your first child later in life raises the risk of postpartum breast cancer

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Why having your first child later in life raises the risk of postpartum breast cancer  Research shows that having a first child after age 30 increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer by 40 per cent to 45 per cent.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/08/18/why-having-your-first-child-later-in-life-raises-the-risk-of-postpartum-breast-cancer  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00our research is focused on breast cancer and specifically postpartum breast cancer this is

00:23a class of breast cancers that are diagnosed in women under 45 years of age and this is a result

00:29of changes in when we're starting to have children the best protection against breast cancer is

00:34actually an early pregnancy in under 20 or to around 20 years of age however what we've been

00:40learning is is that if you have your first child after age 30 you increase your risk for breast

00:46cancer by 40 to 45 percent and what we in our collaborators have discovered is is that what's

00:52happening in the breast is there is a change in the immune or infiltration or inflammation that

00:57is occurring as a result of this this change specifically as you're going through black

01:02time lactation and specifically involution or when the when the child stops nursing this is

01:08resulting in an influx of these in inflammatory cells in a change that's resulting this increase

01:14in cancer risk so by understanding that can we reverse that can we target those specific

01:20cells or understand different markers that are responsible so with that increased risk you need

01:33to be vigilant on mammograms doings self exams to make sure that if there is a lump or something that

01:42does not feel normal that is coming up that you are in a risk group and then with that risk group you

01:48need to be need to be really in contact with your doctor

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