Breast cancer and abortion: the facts

The Age ^ | February 17 2003 | Dr Angela Lanfranchi

[toenail]

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[luckymom]

I have a friend who is in her third bout of breast cancer, only this time it is in her bones and lungs. Her first was in '87, the second in 2000, and now the third and worst. She was talking about advising her married daughter against using birth control pills, but was speechless when I mentioned the connection between abortion and breast cancer. With all she's been through, and both traditional and non-traditional treatments, she had never heard this anywhere.

[STARWISE]

VERY heartfelt ping .. the mainstream media and moral relativists just can't keep the truth from popping out .. even though they bend over backwards to try to stifle it at every turn.

God Bless the millions of innocent babes. Pass it on.

[Iowa Granny]

thank you for posting this.

[Cicero]

However, when pregnancy is terminated before the breast cells reach full maturity, a woman is left with more immature type 1 and 2 breast lobules (milk glands) than before her pregnancy started, and therefore is at increased risk. Her breasts never mature to type 3 and 4 lobules, which would have occurred in the third trimester and would have lowered her risk.

It looks as if there's not only a connection between abortion and breast cancer, but the actual mechanism for the connection may be evident. That's more than you can say about the connection between smoking and lung cancer.

It used to be said, "It ain't nice to fool Mother Nature." I suspect that women who interfere with life's natural cycles through abortion or hormone treatment are taking considerable risks.

[Porterville]

Liberals always try to silence free speech.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Breast cancer and abortion: the facts

Keep it quiet - your're not supposed to know!

[JulieRNR21]

Excellent article....BUMP

[toenail]

The science is straightforward and undisputed: women whose breasts proliferate type 1 and 2 nodules without their maturing to type 3 and 4 nodules are more susceptible to carcinogens. I doubt there's a single oncologist in the U.S. who'd say otherwise.

[rabidralph]

The National Cancer Institute is sponsoring a 3-day seminar on the pregnancy and breast cancer link. It will be available for live viewing at their webcast site The seminar is Feb. 24-26 and can be viewed by using Real Player. Scroll to the end of February's broadcasts and read more about the seminar.

[MadMoo]

Spread the word!

[PoisedWoman]

Researchers are looking for reasons why women in Marin County, CA have far higher breast cancer rates than anywhere else. I wonder whether they are including abortion rates in their research....or are they just too politically correct to do so?

It seems logical that wealthy, liberal, professional women in Marin would have a very high abortion rate.

[jlogajan]

Flawed!!!

Article failed to mention the Denmark study, the largest study so far, which found no link between abortion and breast cancer.

Why oh why would this article fail to mention the Denmark study. An agenda maybe!

Earlier studies were flawed due to "recall bias." That's where healty women underreport previous abortions, whereas women with breast cancer are more willing to disclose accurate medical histories.

The massive Denmark study reviewed health care records rather than relying on interview questions. Hence recall bias was eliminated and the "correlation" between abortion and breast cancer disappeared.

Why again did this author fail to mention the Denmark study, I ask you.

[toenail]

I hesitate to even respond to you, since you rarely say anything of value, but I have a simple question: are women with increased type 1 & 2 nodules more susceptible to cancer?

And how's your to-do list going?

[toenail]

Thanks for the link.

[Mr. Jeeves]

That's a big part of it, though don't expect the media around here to ever admit it. There have been huge stories in the local papers and the word abortion was never mentioned once. They are still trying to blame the oil refineries fiteen miles east of here (and ignoring that prevailing winds carry pollutants inland, away from Marin).

I think the whole liberal Democrat lifestyle is the cause of the Marin County breast cancer problem: abortion, hormone therapy, teenage and adult drug use, excessive alchohol consumption, multiple sexual partners, and irrational anger at Republicans. ;)

[T Minus Four]

Does anyone believe that this information will give even the slightest pause to a woman who has decided to have an abortion?

[Capriole]

The massive Denmark study reviewed health care records rather than relying on interview questions. Hence recall bias was eliminated and the "correlation" between abortion and breast cancer disappeared.

Have you ever taken courses in statistical methodology and study design, or designed a biomedical study yourself? There are all sorts of confounds even in a study like the one you cite. The Danish study might have examined health-care records, but the health care records from one's primary-care provider (clinic, hospital, or physician) may well not show a private procedure like abortion, which many women consider to be so intimate a procedure that they don't even admit it to their families.

I'm working for a major longitudinal medical study right now. It's amazing how little patients remember or know about their own health and their own history. They even forget the names of all the providers they've seen just in the past year. If a woman had an abortion 10 years ago, half the time she won't remember who did it, how his name was spelled, and where his office was located so that the study can go get the records from that provider. It's hard to believe but even an effort like this one, which seeks to get the patient's health records, can't provide an accurate picture of her history of abortion if any.

[A. Pole]

Paternalistic censorship is what I experience every time I try to speak on the science supporting the abortion-breast cancer link.

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