"Women's Cancer Deaths Up, Men's Deaths Down / American Cancer Society Celebrates Net Decrease / Abortion-Breast Cancer Cover Up Responsible for Women's Deaths"

Last week, the American Cancer Society (ACS) tooted its horn and announced a decline in U.S. cancer deaths for the first time since the government started keeping statistics 75 years ago.  Data provided by the National Center for Health Statistics show that deaths from all cancers dropped slightly (by 369 cases) from 557,271 to 556,902 cases during the period between 2002 and 2003, the latest years for which statistics are available.

Importantly, women's cancer deaths increased by 409 cases in 2003, while men's cancer deaths declined by 778 cases.  ACS chief executive officer John Seffrin put a spin on the net decrease of 369 cases.  He told reporters that the data "mark a remarkable turn in our decades-long fight to eliminate cancer as a major health threat."

Women's cancer deaths are up, but the ACS has still found a reason to celebrate.

Experts attribute the decline in deaths for all cancers to a reduction in tobacco use which is responsible for 30% of all cancer deaths.  Breast cancer, the #2 cancer killer of women, is keeping the number of deaths for all cancers higher than it should be.

Last year, the cancer establishment expected 40,400 females to die of breast cancer and well over a quarter of a million total breast cancer cases (nearly 270,000 cases).

The death rate for all cancers would have started dropping sooner if the government and cancer fundraising businesses had been honest about research showing that abortion raises a woman's risk for breast cancer, instead of carrying on a political charade to cover it up and using seriously flawed research to deny an connection. [1,2,3,4]  Conservative estimates are that 5-10% of the cases are due to earlier abortions. [5]

The number of deaths could be reduced further if women were properly educated about the recognized way in which childbearing reduces breast cancer risk - a benefit that women cannot hope to gain if they choose to abort their pregnancies. Oxford researchers concluded that increased childbearing and breastfeeding would cut incidence of the disease by more than 50% in developed nations.  [6]

Childbearing provides the only way for a woman to for mature her breast tissue from immature, cancer-vulnerable tissue (Type 1 and 2 lobules) into mature, cancer-resistant tissue (Type 3 and 4 lobules). [7] This maturation process helps to protect her when she's exposed to a carcinogen, like estrogen, especially if she has an early first full term pregnancy before age 24.

Cancer businesses readily acknowledge that women are overexposed to estrogen during every monthly menstrual cycle and that breast cancer risk increases as the number of lifetime menstrual periods increases.  As every woman knows, childbearing and breastfeeding reduce the total number of menstrual periods that she experiences during her life.  So do oral contraceptives, but combined oral contraceptives contain estrogen and progestin and are classified as Group 1 carcinogens by the World Health Organization. [8,9]  (Estrogen-only oral contraceptives were linked with increased risk of uterine cancer in the 1970s.)

The ACS falsely claims that researchers have not found a cause-effect relationship between abortion and breast cancer.  However, there appears to be a disconnect in the minds of ACS experts - a kind of 'doublethink' as in George Orwell's book 1984. Although the ACS refuses to implicate abortion in any way, it makes the following revealing admission on its website:

"Much of the long-term underlying increase in (breast cancer) incidence among women is due to historical changes in reproductive patterns, such as delayed childbearing and having fewer children." [10]

Everyone knows what caused those historical changes - widespread access to abortion and contraceptives. If ACS leaders cared more about saving women's lives than fundraising, protecting feminist ideology, and earning brownie points from journalists and politicians who advance the interests of the abortion industry, there would be fewer dead women.

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References:

1. Brind J. The abortion-breast cancer connection. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly Summer 2005; p. 303-329.
<http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com/Brind_NCBQ.PDF>.

2. Brind J. Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer: A critical review of recent studies based on prospective data. J Am Phys Surg Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter 2005) 105-110. Available at:
< http://www.jpands.org/vol10no4/brind.pdf>.

3. Lanfranchi A. The abortion-breast cancer link revisited. Ethics and Medics (November 2004) Vol. 29, No. 11, p. 1-4.

4. Furton E. The corruption of science by ideology. Ethics and Medics (Dec. 2004) Vol. 29, No. 11, p. 1-2..

5. Brind J, Chinchilli, VM, Severs WB, Summy-Long J. Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis. J Epidemiol Community Health 1996;50:481-496.

6. Beral V, et al. Breast cancer and breastfeeding: collaborative re-analysis of individual data from 47 epidemiological studies in 30 countries, including 50,302 women with breast cancer and 96,973 women without the disease. Lancet 2002;360:187-195.

7. Lanfranchi A. The science, studies and sociology of the abortion-breast cancer link. Research Bulletin 2005;18:1-8. Available at:
<http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/June2005.pdf>.

8. Cogliano V, Grosse Y, Baan R, Secretan B, El Ghissassi F. Carcinogenicity of combined oestrogen-progestagen contraceptives and menopausal treatment. Lancet Oncology 2005;6:552-553.

9. Press Release No. 167, "IARC Monographs Programme Finds Combined Estrogen-Progestogen Contraceptives (the "pill") and Menopausal Therapy Are Carcinogenic to Humans," World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer, July 29, 2005. See
<http://www.iarc.fr/ENG/Press_Releases/pr167a.html>.

10. American Cancer Society website visited February 12, 2006.  Available at: <http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MED/content/MED_2_1x_Breast_Cancer_Facts__Figures_2005-2006.asp>.

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.

Tax-deductible, credit card donations can be made at www.AbortionBreastCancer.com. Donations can be mailed to: the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, P.O. Box 957133, Hoffman Estates, IL 60195. The IRS recognizes the coalition as a 501(c)3 organization.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com

Breast Cancer Prevention Institute
http://www.BCPInstitute.org

Polycarp Research Institute
http://www.polycarp.org