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BOSTON — Girls should be encouraged to exercise vigorously enough to delay their puberty, because that may help protect them from breast cancer and other diseases later in life. a researcher said yesterday
Delaying puberty may cut cancer risk, officials say
Grade school girls who play strenu-
ous sports often have their first
menstrual period, or menarche, later
than usual. Even after adolescence
starts, they may miss periods if they
workout regularly.
Although delayed or missing menstrual periods often is thought to be abnormal, some experts now say it is natural and even desirable, because it may protect the body from the damaging effects of sex hormones.
The Associated Press
Rose E. Frisch of the Harvard School of Public Health said that girls typically now have their first periods at age $12_{1/2}$. But if they exercise in such vigorous sports as tennis, running or basketball their average age at menarche is $15_{1/2}$.
Frisch said the more menstrual cycles a woman has over her lifetime, the greater her chance of breast cancer, the biggest cancer-related killer among U.S. women. So anything that delays the start of menstruation should lower the cancer risk, he said.
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Jack Fishman of Rockefeller University said breast cancer may take 40 years to develop. "What you do in puberty can be very relevant to what happens in breast cancer after menopause," he said.
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