Besides good for the intelligence of children, breastfeeding can also reduce the risk of breast cancer for the mother. Breastfeeding mothers can reduce the risk breast cancer by 10-15 percent.

"Fertilizer" cancer is a hormone estrogen in the body. When during pregnancy and lactation, appear hormone progesterone. The hormone is then increased and did protection, so that the hormone estrogen is no longer dominant.

If the mother breast-feeding after birth, there is a period of 27 months for the mother in which the hormone estrogen is not dominant in the body. That in that period, the risk of maternal breast cancer decreased.

Although fertilizer cancer from the hormone estrogen, does not mean that the men escaped from the risk of breast cancer. In the body there is also the hormone estrogen, although levels are not as many as are contained in the body of a woman.

The man also had a glandular breasts, just not growing like a woman. The risk of male breast cancer is 1 per cent. The symptoms that occur in men who had cancer was similar to women, such as the emergence of a lump in the breast and discharge from the nipple.

Generally symptoms of breast cancer in men is more easily recognizable than women. If there was a lump in the breast men will be more easy visible, because their breasts did not develop like women.