All the cancers that formula feeding cause. any figures?

[mumtotwoboys]

So we know bottle feeders suffer more breast and ovarian cancers, and their babies suffer more childhood cancers (like leukimia) and bowel cancers later in life..
Any specific percentages?
Anything showing the amount of cancers it causes in relation to smoking?

Do we even know that it causes cancer or do we just have correlation?

Links please? To medical journals and reports?

Nice thread title, bet that makes all FFers feel great!

In fact, I'm not even sure I knew (as per the assumtion in the OP) there was any correlation.

Would like to see the evidence proving this

your terminology is pejorative bottlefeeders? by that you mean the majority feeding mode in the uk?the way most uk babies are fed?

what are you hopuing to glean?some spurius research to prove what point exactly

oncology is clinically very complex and on a personal level very destructive

there is no one (reputable) ff causes cancer journal.

there is a lot of human angst

shame on you

There is a huge difference between breastfeeding offering some protection against certain cancers and formula feeding causing them.

The thread title is unkind as well as stupid.

OP you seem to have read or heard somewhere that FF causes cancer like leaukemia and bowel cancer - where was that?

Who published these studies? Or was it an article in a newspaper (curious, serouslt as to how you have come to these assumptions - as they are assumptions...)

Good post SM

go search cochrane library for evidence based research,sure you will find sweet fa

but suspect you dont seek clarity or robust research - think you have stated your hypothesis already

I think the OP was actually asking where the evidence was, not trying to make any point but looking for information.

I don't know where the evidence is either but I do know that in the antenatal blurb we get, we are usually told that breastfeeding protects against ovarian cancer and breast cancer. Have never seen any definitive studies though.

Sorry it's just that my pregnancy notes doctor gave me says 'twenty times as likely to develop serious bowel disease' under the 'disadvantages of artificial milk.
And it says 'protects against pre-menopausal breast cancer + ovarian canger'.
Maybe this NHS pregnancy health record has false information in it?

I was just assuming there was probably some evidence if doctor are giving out this info.
Maybe it's false and theyre lying to manipulate us into breastfeeding because....................
IDK
I'm a bad conspiracy theorist :-p

Obviously, if it were that bad, it wouldn't be marketed.

If you are going to make such stupid misleading claim, you are netter armed with some reputable scientific sources.

better, not netter... gosh, I'm going to bed. Night

Here's the evidence I'm aware of:

Breastfeeding reduces the risk of baby girls eventually developing breast cancer by 25% (?Exposure to breast milk in infancy and the risk of breast cancer? Freudenheim, J. 1994)

A baby breastfed for one month has a reduced risk of childhood leukemia by 21%. This risk reduction becomes 30% after 6 months. (Robison, L. at University of Minnesota, 1999)

Breastfeeding reduces maternal risk of premenopausal breast cancer by 59% (Stuebe at University of North Carolina, published in the Archivesof Internal Medicine, Aug. 2009)

You can also find lots of evidence suggesting breastfeeding reduces risk of Crohn's, obesity, diabetes, ear infections, gastrointestinal disorders etc.

"your terminology is pejorative bottle^^feeders? by that you mean the majority feeding mode in the uk?the way most uk babies are fed?"

Just because lots of people do it doesn't negate the risks.

fibilou. quite.

(swallows huges rant and toddles off to look at journals)

Looks like a good future for my kids obesity, ear infections and cancer thankyou

Carmen thanks that's brilliant :-)

I've never heard any information saying that formula feeding causes cancer or other health problems, only that breastfeeding may help protect mothers and babies to a degree.

I know it's just words, but it does make a difference I think.

pipprabit
they've changed it now thankfully in the pregnancy notes, it has 'dissadvantages of artificla milk' and 'more likely to suffer..'
Means same thing, but makes more sense to me.
'Smoking causes cancer' is more of a clear message than 'non-smokers less likely to suffer cancer'.
I think they're getting serious because still women are choosing to artificially feed, 80% bottle feed their 6 month olds was it? NHS are probably pissed off with all the extra child illnesses they have to pay for because of people choosing formula.

Mongolia, they market diet coke very successfully and that contains aspartame. If people think they can make money they'll market anything!

Disclaimer: Am NOT likening formula to diet coke!

Ok so maybe information is being handed out that says that ''twenty times more likely to develop serious bowel disease' under the 'disadvantages of artificial milk'

I seriously have never seen or heard of that. What leaflet was that OP?

valpollice it's in my pregnancy notes, the ones that the doctors and midwife writes in that I take to the hospital

This is what i'm saying, they're gettign pretty blatent about what they tell u, only 3 years ago when i had DS1 they didn't say it that harshly, they were still only acting asthough breastfeeding gave 'a few extra benefits'
now it's all clear in black and white that 'bottlefeeding is detrimental'

What a ridiculous title. FF does not cause cancer. It may confer no protection against cancers but there is NO, ZERO evidence that it CAUSES cancer.

You should ask for such a factually incorrect and inflammatory thread title to be removed, and you should feel ashamed of yourself.