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Anirban Maitra: What Are the Immunological Underpinnings of Parity and Breastfeeding in Reducing the Risk of Breast Cancer?

Anirban Maitra, Scientific Director of Sheikh Ahmed Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research and Professor of Pathology and Translational Molecular Pathology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, shared a post on X about a recent article by Balaji Virassamy et al. published in Nature:

“Beautiful study from Sherene Loi in Nature.

Parity and lactation induce T cell mediated breast cancer protection.

What are the immunological underpinnings of parity and breastfeeding reducing the lifetime risk of breast cancer in women?”

Title: Parity and lactation induce T cell mediated breast cancer protection

Authors: Balaji Virassamy, Franco Caramia, Peter Savas, Michael A. Harris, Jia-Wern Pan, Jianan Wang, Emmaline Brown, Megan M. R. O’Malley, Courtney T. van Geelen, Michael Hun, Thomas N. Burn, Sneha Sant, Jamieson D. Ballan, Jasmine Kay, Luis E. Lara Gonzalez, Kylie Clarke, Han Xian Aw Yeang, Rejhan Idrizi, Metta Jana, Damon J. Challice, Roberto Salgado, Heather Thorne, kConFab consortium, Cathie Poliness, Sophie Nightingale, Soo-Hwang Teo, Terence P. Speed, Jane Visvader, Paul J. Neeson, Phillip K. Darcy, Laura K. Mackay, Sherene Loi

Read the Full Article on Nature

Anirban Maitra: What Are the Immunological Underpinnings of Parity and Breastfeeding in Reducing the Risk of Breast Cancer?

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