Migraines May Be Helpful to Women
July 10, 2009 by Peggy Rowland
Filed under Women's Health
No one wants to have migraines, but the consolation is that they may help protect you from breast cancer!
Researchers aren’t exactly sure why or how, but there’s a clear link, newly confirmed by a follow-on study to research first published about the link last year. The link between migraines and breast cancer risk reduction has something to do with hormones, but researchers don’t yet understand the biological mechanisms taking place.
The new study, published in the July issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, shows that there’s a 26% reduced risk of breast cancer among women with a clinical diagnosis of …read more




