Breast Cancer, Breastfeeding, and Mastectomy: A Call for More Research

J Hum Lact. 2017 May;33(2):454-457. doi: 10.1177/0890334416678822. Epub 2016 Nov 24.

Authors

Narges Alianmoghaddam¹, Kaveh Khoshnood², Cheryl Benn¹, Holly Powell Kennedy³, Minoor Lamyian⁴

Affiliations

¹ 1 School of Public Health, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
² 2 School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
³ 3 School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁴ 4 Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

PMID: 27881730
DOI: 10.1177/0890334416678822

No abstract available

Keywords: breast cancer; breastfeeding; breastfeeding support; mastectomy.

MeSH terms

Adult
Breast Feeding / trends*
Breast Neoplasms / epidemiology
Breast Neoplasms / prevention & control
Female
Humans
Mastectomy / methods
Mastectomy / trends*
Research Design / standards
Research Design / trends*