Breast-feeding may significantly cut a woman's risk of breast cancer if she has an immediate relative that has ever had the disease, according to a study published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine. Among women with close family members who have had breast cancer, the risk of developing the disease before menopause sank by 59 percent if she ever breast-fed, according to the research, which used data from more than 60,000 subjects of the Harvard Nurses' Health Study. The risk of breast cancer in women without the disease in the family was unaffected by breast-feeding. The findings suggest that