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Giving birth at an older age may help reduce the risk of Endometrial Cancer.

That's the most common gynecological cancer in the U.S.

Researchers at the School of Medicine conducted the largest study of it's kind.

It compared women who had their last birth under the age of 25 to mothers who were 40 or older when they had their last child.

Older birth had a 44 percent reduced risk of endometrial cancer.