< Check out the commercial Dr. Brind had produced. (Click image.)
Posted on 03/23/2002 4:46:11 PM PST by Notwithstanding
As a woman with two miscarriages, no live births and a family history of Ovarian cancer, I'm on the Pill simply for the protection it provides from Ovarian cancer. (PS I have a degree in biology)
< Check out the commercial Dr. Brind had produced. (Click image.)
BTW, most studies do show an increased risk of stroke and blood clots in Pill users. Even more interesting, I just read that the latest generation of Pills caused even more problems than the previous one. It encouraged women to continue using the second generation Pills instead. As for estrogen, many studies over the years do report lower incidences of stroke, heart disease, etc. However, in the last year this has been brought into question. A study out a few months ago reported no advantages found. This lead researchers to wonder if women on estrogen were just more conscientious overall about their health than women who took nothing. Interesting, and I think we'll see more about this. You have to look at all the studies together because periodically you do get those that contradict each other.
THE BIRTH CONTROL PILL DOES NOT ACT AS AN OVULATION SUPPRESSANT.
IT IS A CHEMICAL ABORTIFACIENT!!!
It looks like Dr. Brind's institute has a website also. www.hope.info It has good links.
Well, I sure have been getting lots of chances to be monitored with regular mammograms the past five years, since my breast cancer was detected and treated. No history of breast cancer in my family, but 7 or 8 years on HRT first to "get me through the hot flashes" and then later because I had "a history of cardiovascular problems in the family." What they "forgot" to tell me was that whenever I finally did decide to stop the HRT, I would get to experience the hot flashes anyway, even if I was 75 or 80 when I did so!
There are some big studies going on about pros and cons of HRT. It appears all that much vaunted heart protection and bone protection go the way of the dodo bird soon after HRT is discontinued, anyway. Now, do I think HRT "caused" my breast cancer? Well, yes and no. One of the doctors of the Women's Health Initiative's huge 70,000+ woman study told my group that there was no apparent cause of cancer by the HRT. No relationship at 1 year or 2, even 3, 4, 5, or 6. Then, interestingly, his graph showed that about 7 or 8 years into the use of HRT, there was a dramatic rise in the correlation between breast cancer and HRT. Just a coincidence, I suppose? However, Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book describes the progression of a cancer cell from its first mutation. Many just "go away," probably destroyed by the body's immunue system. However...estrogen feeds many breast cancer cells and fans them into growth, like feeding oxygen to a fire. Care to guess how many years it takes that single cancer cell to grow large enough to be detected? Six or seven years. Remember the point when the correlation between HRT use and breast cancer shows up many times higher than it was at year 1 or 2?
HRT may not have "caused" my cancer, (caused that first mutation) but there is not the slightest doubt in my mind that it encouraged it to grow into an invasive tumor that would have taken my life (and still might) had it not been discovered, and that the mutant cell might never have done so without it. Yes, I got the hot flashes when I stopped the Premarin -- with a vengeance. Would I have taken Premarin then, if I had known then what I know now? Not on your tintype.
Please get Dr. John Lee's book: What your doctor may not tell you about Menopause. It's very important info.
Seriously, do you have something against women! No, not seriously---I'm sure you don't. :~)
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