How does an abortion leave a woman with more cancer-vulnerable cells in her breasts than she had before she became pregnant? We offer two versions of the biological rationale for the abortion-breast cancer link: a Brief Summary and the longer Detailed Explanation.

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Brief Summary of Estrogen's Role and the Biological Explanation

    * Biological Evidence
    * Estrogen - The "Smoking Gun"
    * Biological Explanation for the Link

Detailed Explanation of the Biological Basis for the Abortion-Breast Cancer Link (Offered to the Coalition courtesy of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute)*

    * Exposure to Estrogen & Breast Cancer Risk
    * Breast Maturity & Breast Cancer Risk
    * Reproductive History & Breast Cancer Risk


* We are grateful to the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute for providing us with Chapters 3, 4 & 5 of its online booklet, "Breast Cancer Risks and Prevention," by Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., F.A.C.S., Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey and by Joel Brind, Ph.D., Professor of Endocrinology at Baruch College, City University of New York in New York City.

Dr. Lanfranchi Explains Biological Reason for ABC Link "The Science, Studies and Sociology of the Abortion Breast Cancer Link" published in Research Bulletin, Spring 2005.

    * "The science, studies and sociology of the abortion breast cancer link"

"The Breast Physiology and the Epidemiology of the Abortion Breast Cancer Link"
By Angela Lanfranchi, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Robert Wood
Johnson Medical Center
Imago Hominis [2005;12(3): 228-236]
Institut für medizinische Anthropologie und Bioethik
     * "The Breast Physiology and the Epidemiology of the
       Abortion Breast Cancer Link"