There’s a shocking new breast cancer statistic that’s likely to have frightened women across the country. Women who have their first baby in their thirties or don’t have children at all, an expert warned at the world’s largest cancer conference, are 60 per cent more likely to develop the disease before menopause than those who give birth for the first time in their early twenties.
If that gave you a nasty jolt, I’m not surprised.
But, let me separate the science from the hype.
It’s not wrong that the age you have your first baby is relevant. But that 60 per cent only
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