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To: ChurtleDawg
Just like 'the pill' is good? How many mothers put their children on the pill, thinking they were protecting them, only to see them develop breast cancer and die?

"According to statistics, 270,000 women died of cervical cancer worldwide in 2002, making this form of cancer one of the deadliest. In the US, cervical cancer killed around 3,700 women in 2002.

That is in no way the deadliest form of cancer in the USA.
Breast cancer caused by the pill dwarfs that number, as do many other cancers, such as colon and pancreatic cancers, lung cancer.

I think this should be carefully studied before mass inocculation occurs, and even then it should be offered only as a CHOICE, not a mass, taxpayer funded, innoculation. It would be foolish to rush into mass inocculation, only to discover a few years down the road that the cure caused more cancers than it was supposed to prevent.

26 posted on 01/31/2007 4:28:54 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary
Breast cancer caused by the pill dwarfs that number

Really? And your statistic comes from where?

35 posted on 01/31/2007 4:41:21 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Nathan Zachary
That is in no way the deadliest form of cancer in the USA.

Cervical cancer deaths have dropped by around 80% in the US due to mass Pap smear screening. Prior to the 50's it was the second leading cause of cancer death among American women, topped only by breast cancer.

59 posted on 01/31/2007 5:24:29 AM PST by jalisco555 ("Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us and pigs treat us as equals" Winston Churchill)
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To: Nathan Zachary
Just like 'the pill' is good? How many mothers put their children on the pill, thinking they were protecting them, only to see them develop breast cancer and die?

The evidence for significantly increased risk of breast cancer is related to HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy), not birth control:

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/genetics/breast-and-ovarian/healthprofessional#Section_340

87 posted on 01/31/2007 5:52:10 AM PST by M. Dodge Thomas
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