Posted on 08/26/2019 3:29:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Recent numbers released by the American Academy of Dermatology revealed a dramatic spike in the incidence of melanoma cases among young women. Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer, and for women aged 18-39, its rates have increased by 800% from 1970 to 2009. In Caucasian women under 44, the number of cases has increased by just over 6% annually. (1)
Now, in addition to being the most dangerous, melanoma is one of the most common cancers in young adults (especially young women). More than 7,000 people in the United States are expected to die of melanoma in 2019—about 4,740 men and 2,490 women, (2) and the American Cancer Society estimates that about 96,480 new melanoma cases will be diagnosed in 2019. (3)
The introduction of indoor tanning is likely to have played a major role in this spike. However, we should take a hard look at exactly what role highly prescribed drugs like birth control play in the epidemic of skin cancer cases among pre-menopausal women.
Connections between skin cells and estrogen receptors
Anyone who has encountered breast cancer in their family history is probably familiar with a receptor known as HER2. I was, but I really didn’t know much about it beyond its name until I began researching for an article I was writing on breast cancer.
According to the NIH, a cancer that is HER2 positive, “describes cancer cells that have too much of a protein called HER2 on their surface. In normal cells, HER2 helps to control cell growth. When it is made in larger than normal amounts by cancer cells, the cells may grow more quickly and be more likely to spread to other parts of the body.”
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Morals and religion aside, I WOULD NEVER take a male birth control pill (they’re working on them).
I think women who do this are nuts!
Don’t tinker!
Unsurprising.
I think so, too. (And I believe BC should be available OTC, with the appropriate fed warning for each type.)
This is one more reason I’m so grateful that my vanity kept me from ever taking the pill. I simply didn’t want the weight gain as a new wife. I’ve since learned enough about the potential health consequences of the pill that I praise God I didn’t use it. The most serious being that it is an abortifacient-most don’t know that. Think of all the pro-life women who have unknowingly destroyed a baby with the pill. It doesn’t prevent conception, it just prevents implantation.
Wow.
I didn’t know that.
From the article:
“The introduction of indoor tanning is likely to have played a major role in this spike.”
Call me skeptical, but the increasingly fashionable bombardment of the skin cells with artificial UV light strikes me as a much larger factor for skin cancer risk than the pill. Did the study control for the fact that sexually active women are both more likely to use the pill and more likely to tan? Correlation is not causation.
skeptical: Men are twice as likely to get and die from cancer.
How about the documented concerns about the pill and children born after a mother goes off the pill having a discernable increase in homosexuality in those children.
Because it is potentially fatal, dermatologists have no choice but to biopsy everything that even looks like it might be Melanoma.
Once your biopsy goes to the lab, pathologists have no choice but to highlight every cell that even looks like Melanoma.
Pathologists use a 5 point scale to make a diagnosis.
1 - not Melanoma
5 - definitely Melanoma
Their accuracy on 1 and 5 is close to 100%
Their accuracy on 2-3-4 can be highly subjective and is usually biased towards Melanoma.
In addition, many people have “dormant” Melanomas that would not become aggressive during their lifetime.
Doesn't matter - if it looks like Melanoma, the Dermo is going to chop it out.
bkmk
I believe it can actually do both.
Use of nfp for the purpose of avoiding conception is forbidden. It is for short term health issues, which would usually require continence anyway. Misuse of nfp requires confession... but not a lot of priests will tell you that.
All forms of contraception are evil
in particular the pill and condoms
They can do both, but the newer low dose pills (older high dose had too many negative side effects) will act as an abortifacient some of the time as there will occasionally be breakthrough ovulation and fertilization. It’s the nature of the low dose.
Thus a warning label for Catholics and other religious folks who nonetheless wish to dabble in this.
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