Once again, a well-done study, this time a prospective cohort study from the Nurse’s Health Study, has failed to reveal a link between abortion and breast cancer. The findings were published in the Archives of Internal Medicine this week.
This study joins the ranks of a myriad of other well-done studies showing the same thing. To top it off, a large workshop convened at the National Cancer Institute in 2003 found no causal link between abortion and breast cancer.
And yet, if you were to google “abortion and breast cancer” or “breast cancer and abortion”, almost every result in the first 10 pages of the search results are links to non-medical sites stating that there is a causal link between abortion and breast cancer. The only exception is the NCI’s fact sheet on the topic, and occasional news articles about the “controversy”, which give equal voice to the facts and those who would distort the data for political reasons.
This is where the web’s power breaks down as far as I’m concerned. Those who know how to can manipulate the web so that a search for real medical data becomes akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
Here are just two links to information on this topic from reputable medical organizations:
National Cancer Institute Fact Sheet on Breast Cancer Risks
American Cancer Society Information on Breast Cancer Risks
and a good article by CNN:
Harvard Study Latest to Discount Abortion -Breast Cancer Link
I challenge those of you who value scientific opinion and review over politics to blog about this topic and to provide your readers a link to one of the above information sites on your blog. Let’s give these sites the hits they deserve and get them their well-deserved place on a google search.
Women deserve nothing less.
I’m on board: http://magpiemusing.blogspot.com/2007/04/abortion-and-breast-cancer-are-not.html
There is an incredible amount of junk on the net – I always keep paging through until I find something I think is reputable, but, sometimes it’s difficult and some sites very deceptive.
I’ll do something in the near future – I agree it’s important. (but I’m off to the U.S. shortly…)
Slow, but here’s my contribution: http://bardiac.blogspot.com/2007/04/not-link-between-abortion-and-breast.html
with all the money in abortion how can any believe anyone pushing away its negatives. i refuse to believe either side. its easier for the two sides to call each other liars back and forth. until i see real doctors and a medical show or the news saying the truth all this reading and debating is trash. is everyone forgetting the life of the child.
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TO COMMEMORATE BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
NEW ONE-WOMAN BRITISH PLAY – OPENING IN NEW YORK – TACKLES ISSUES OF BREAST CANCER, FAMILY AND FEAR WITH CANDOR
Autobiographical British Play Running October 22 – November 2, 2008
Represents New Genre of Peer-to-Peer Drama
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The show – entitled The Things I Wish My Mother Would Have Told Me – will run from October 22 through November 2, 2008. Coinciding with Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Center Stage Theater (located located at 48 W. 21st Street 4th floor in New York) will be alive as this young British talent graces the stage (as only the British know best) detailing chronologically life, love, joy , death and the conflicts that are in us all.
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