00:00As well as being a mum and a passionate advocate for breastfeeding, some of you
00:04might know that I'm also a journalist. So as a journalist I subscribe to an
00:09organisation called Symex which sends journalists news briefings into their
00:14email inboxes on a daily basis and I get news briefings or news alerts on
00:20scientific discoveries that have been found all around the world from
00:24institutions, hospitals, research facilities, wherever they're getting you
00:30know results from and scientific studies. So I was very very excited today to
00:35receive this in my inbox. So it's a news briefing, briefing alert, breastfeeding
00:41linked to lasting immune protection against breast cancer. So I'm actually
00:46gonna need my glasses for this. I'm gonna put my glasses on and I'll read you what
00:51I received as the news briefing. It says a team of Aussie researchers has
00:57uncovered how having children and breastfeeding reduces a woman's long-term
01:02risk of developing breast cancer. Now this is the interesting part. The study
01:08reveals how pregnancy and breastfeeding leave a lasting impact on the breasts
01:15immune system and offers new insights for both prevention and treatment of breast
01:20cancer. And this research will be presented by the European Society of
01:26Medical Oncology Congress 2025 in Berlin. And the speaker is going to be
01:34Professor Shireen Loy and she's a medical oncologist and clinician scientist at the
01:40Peter McCollum Cancer Center which is here in Australia. And what's really
01:45interesting about it is that it's linked to lasting immune protection against breast
01:50cancer. So I really encourage you to look this study up. I do imagine that it'll be
01:55running in you know probably hopefully a lot of the mainstream media outlets but I
02:01just thought I would jump on and do my part in spreading the word about what they
02:07have found in obviously a study that they've done. And so look that's just yet
02:13another I mean the research piles on and on and on about all the protective
02:18effects of breast cancer for the mums. So you know it's easy to obviously focus on
02:25all the benefits for our babies and children and of course that's the
02:29important focus. But but but mums also you know breastfeeding has got so many
02:35benefits for you too. So nature really designed a win-win when it when we evolved to
02:42breastfeed our young and I think that's just a really another positive finding
02:47and another fantastic benefit that that breastfeeding seems to be linked to now
02:54lasting immune protection against breast cancer. So keep your eye out for longer
03:01stories and articles about this very exciting news briefing that just landed in
03:07in my inbox.
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