Late birth will be less likely to endometrial cancer

According to a recent study, women who give birth to their last child after the age of 30 are less likely to have endometrial cancer. Endometrial cancer occurs in uterine lining cells (uterus) and is the most common gynecological cancer in the United States.

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The researchers examined data from more than 8,600 women with endometrial cancer and more than 16,500 people without the disease. The analysis showed that the risk of endometrial cancer decreased by about 13% for every 5 years of late birth for the last child born after age 30.

Compared to women who gave birth to their last child before the age of 25, those who gave birth to their last child between the ages of 30 and 34 will have a 17% lower chance of endometrial cancer, those aged 35 and 39 will reduce the risk by 32% and those aged 40 and older will reduce the risk of endometrial cancer by 44%.

According to researcher Veronica Setiawan, of Keck Medical University in Southern California, giving birth at an older age reduces the risk of endometrial cancer. At the same time, this study shows that the late age at the last birth will be a significant protection factor, which helps women at low risk of the disease.

However, according to the researcher, when scientists collect data based on ethnicity or ethnicity, the relationship between age at the last birth and the effects against endometrial cancer The uterus is obvious among white and Hispanic women, but not among the few black women present in the study.

This study was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology on July 23.

According to the American Cancer Society, in 2012 more than 47,000 American women were diagnosed with uterine cancer and more than 8,000 people died of the disease this year.