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What can help reduce the incidence?
Stasha Jordan, breastfeeding activist and executive director of the South African Breastmilk Reserve (SABR) says: “Not many people know that breastfeeding decreases a woman’s chance of contracting breast cancer especially if they breastfeed for longer than a year.
Maintaining good breast
health is not only about protecting your own life – it also means you will be
able to provide the optimal diet of breastmilk to your own babies and even save
other babies’ lives.”
SABR encourages mothers to
breastfeed their babies exclusively for the first six months and to donate
breastmilk to the SABR banks located across the country. Donated breastmilk is
pasteurised and fed through a tube to premature babies in neonatal intensive
care units who are not strong enough to suckle from their mothers who in turn
struggle to supply their own breastmilk.
