[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?

[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.

[capitan_refugio]

You are correct; there is most definately "an agenda" behind this article. The author is interested in saving women's lives.

[pyx]

An agenda maybe!

Yours ?

Here I was thinking Libertarians didn't believe in initiating force and yet, jamming a pair of scissors into the base of an infant's skull and decapitating and dismembering him inside the birth canal before sucking his parts into a sink somehow doesn't sound too passive.