WOMEN who suffer from severe morning sickness may have an increased risk of
breast cancer, says a report in this month’s British Journal of Cancer
(vol 76, p 118).
Leslie Bernstein and her colleagues at the University of Southern California
in Los Angeles studied the records of 450 women who developed breast cancer
before they were 40 years old, and those of healthy controls.
Women who were treated for severe nausea during pregnancy were twice as
likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer within five years as those who did not
have severe sickness.
