Catharina Svanborg
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[pdf] Milk Therapy http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061209/bob8.asp
The immunologist (Catharina Svanborg) had logged hundreds of lab hours documenting ways in which human milk helps babies fight infections........... They applied breast milk to the cancerous lung cells, and all the cells died.

[pdf] Discover Breastfeeding article http://discovermagazine.com/1999/jun/featcancer
Breast-feeding protects babies from cancer, but no one knows quite how. So when biologists in Catharina Svanborg's lab saw mothers' milk kill cancer cells, they knew they were onto something big.