Breast cancer cases jump in China, hits younger women

Yahoo News ^ | 10.05.05

[Coleus]

BEIJING (AFP) - Breast cancer kills nearly 40 percent more Chinese women than it did a decade ago and the disease is now targeting a younger age group, state media reported.

A survey carried out by the Ministry of Health indicated that the fatality rate of breast cancer rose 38.7 percent for women living in urban areas and 39.1 percent for rural women between 1991 and 2000, China Daily reported.

The report did not give detailed statistics but only stated that 3.53 out of every 100,000 Chinese women died from breast cancer from 1990 to 1992.

Chinese women aged between 45 and 49 were most vulnerable to breast cancer, 10 to 15 years younger than their American counterparts, said the paper.

There has also been a "significant increase" in the incidence of the cancer among women aged between 25 and 40, it added without providing supporting statistics.

A faster and more stressful pace of life, the growing consumption of fast food and a higher fat diet were to blame, said Xu Guangwei of the China Anti-Cancer Association.

Health officials are planning to establish up to 100 screening sites across the country during the next six years and aim to register up to 15,000 women at each centre for regular screening, Xu said.

[Coleus]

The Chinese government reports that female breast cancer deaths climbed nearly 40% in the last decade and that the disease is impacting a younger age group - women between the ages 45 and 49.

Similarly, American women suffered a more than 40% increase in breast cancer cases between the mid-1980's and 1998, and the increase took place entirely within the Roe v. Wade generation - the group of women who were under age 40 in 1973 when abortion was legalized. [1] According to the "Report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1973-1998," the two older generations which didn't have access to legalized abortion did not experience this increase in breast cancer rates.

According to Angela Lanfranchi, MD, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center, abortion made breast cancer a young woman's disease.  It used to be a grandmother's disease.

The Chinese government, like the American government, isn't telling women why they're getting more breast cancers.  Here's a little clue for the Chinese and U.S. governments. Nations that prohibit abortion (like Ireland and Poland) have significantly lower breast cancer rates. [2]

Two seriously flawed Chinese studies have been used to convince American women that abortion will not increase their odds of developing breast cancer. [3,4] Drs. Joel Brind and Vernon Chinchilli sent a letter last year to the British Journal of Cancer citing flaws in the Chinese studies. [5]

Scientists know perfectly well that there's no comparison between the childbearing practices of Chinese and American women. Americans choose their abortions. Chinese women don't.  China has a one-child per couple policy.  Women who become pregnant illegally are forcibly aborted.

Abortion is prevalent in China because of the one-child per couple policy. Chinese women have early first full term pregnancies, and subsequent illegal pregnancies are forcibly aborted. Scientists agree that having an early first full term pregnancy (the earlier, the lower the risk) significantly reduces breast cancer risk.

By contrast, American women generally choose abortion before the birth of a first child, so Americans have their abortions during the most carcinogenic time in a woman's life. Childless women have immature, cancer-vulnerable Types 1 and 2 breast lobules. Starting early in pregnancy, women are overexposed to the hormone, estrogen, a carcinogen that stimulates the lobules to multiply and causes the breasts to grow.  Only one event protects women from estrogen, shuts off cell multiplication and matures their breast tissue into cancer-resistant, milk-producing Types 3 and 4 lobules - a third trimester process in pregnancy called "differentiation."

Because abortion is so widespread in communist countries, it's difficult for scientists to find adequate control groups in these populations. Accurate epidemiological research becomes more difficult when a majority of the population has been exposed to abortion.

In such a case, women who don't have abortions become a minority, an atypical group - women who never married or who married late in life. These circumstances typically cause women to delay their first full term pregnancies or to be childless.  Both groups are at high risk for the disease.

Hence, the Chinese studies underestimate the relative risk of abortion because they compare women who received the protective effect of an early first full term pregnancy with women in a high-risk subgroup. The risk-reducing effect of early first full term pregnancy masquerades as the risk-reducing or null effect of abortion.

China is gearing up for a dramatic surge in breast cancer cases. The government couldn't have come up with a better population control plan.

AFP News Agency provided a report on the Chinese situation (below).

Spread the word.

Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES

"Breast cancer cases jump in China, hits younger women"
AFP News Agency
Wednesday October 5, 2005 06:45 PM

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/05102005/323/breast-cancer-cases-jump-china-hits-younger-women.html
 

References:

1. Howe HL, Wingo PA, Thun MJ, Ries LA, Rosenberg HM, Feigal EG, Edwards BK. Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1973 through 1998, featuring cancers with recent increasing trends. J Natl Cancer Inst 2001;93:824-842.

2. Schlafly A. Legal implications of a link between abortion and breast cancer. J Am Phys Surgeons 2005;10:11-14.

3. Sanderson M, Shu X-O, Jin F, Dai Q, Wen W, Hua Y, Gao Y-T, Zheng W. Abortion history and breast cancer risk: results from the Shanghai breast cancer study. Int J Cancer 2001;92:899-905.

4. Ye Z, Gao DL, Qin Q, Ray RM, Thomas DB. Breast cancer in relation to induced abortions in a cohort of Chinese women. Br J Cancer 2002;87:977-981.

5. Brind J, Chinchilli VM. Letter. Breast cancer and induced abortions in China. Br J Cancer 2004;90:2244-46.

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The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
www.AbortionBreastCancer.com

Breast Cancer Prevention Institute
www.BCPInstitute.org

Polycarp Research Institute
www.polycarp.org  

This newsletter can be viewed online at:
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/news/051011/index.htm

[Coleus]

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[Semper Paratus]

China's scarce of young females as it is!

[wideawake]

A rapid rise in breast cancer in a country known for its manadatory abortion policies?

There's no link, of course.

[Pessimist]

"A faster and more stressful pace of life, the growing consumption of fast food and a higher fat diet were to blame"

Are those really risk factors for breast cancer?

[vetvetdoug]

First, there is going to be an excess of 25 million men and now 60% of the available young women have mammy cancer. This is not good.

[fullchroma]

China instituted the one-child policy in 1979. It probably took many years to successfully enforce because it was strongly resisted by the populase. Hence the lag from rising breast cancer rates in the U.S.

[andy58-in-nh]

We know the real story.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Are those really risk factors for breast cancer?

According to the American Cancer Institute, high fat diets are indeed a risk factor for breast cancer.

[sageb1]

Interesting. This merely backs up my own view that women should not put off child-bearing in favor of having a career first. Another is the request by women over 40 to have insurance companies cover fertility treatments which only have a 4% success rate. Putting off attempts to get pregnant until later in life is a choice women have made. Why should insurance companies be forced to pay?

[fatima]

Thanks for the ping Coleus.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks. On a slightly related note, it has been estimated that 40 per cent of the Chinese population has TB. Yeah, they got a real good thing goin' over there.

[MHGinTN]

"A faster and more stressful pace of life, the growing consumption of fast food and a higher fat diet were to blame ..." Of course, the state cannot allow a connection to their mandatory abortion program. Surprised?... Our lieberal leftists have the exact same mindset ... couldn't allow discovery/affirmation of a connection between abortion and breast cancer, it would impinge upon the agenda! But the leftists (like Hatellary, Kennedy, Boxbitch, Harkin and Feinswein) claim to care about women's health, don'tchaknow!