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Dear Friends:
A member of the Canadian Parliament issued a press release on March 16 that was sharply critical of the Canadian Cancer Society for withholding evidence of risk factors for breast cancer. Maurice Vellacott, Conservative MP for Saskatoon/Wanuskewin, entitled the press release, "What the Canadian Cancer Society isn't telling CBC's Wendy Mesley could be killing Canadian women."
In his opening statement, he asked, "If the Canadian Cancer Society isn't telling women the truth about the birth control pill's link to breast cancer, what else is the Canadian Cancer Society withholding?"
A similar question might be asked of the American Cancer Society and other U.S. cancer fundraising businesses. They were slow to admit that use of hormone replacement therapy and oral contraceptives increase breast cancer risk, and they falsely claim that abortion does not increase breast cancer risk.
Any thinking person can recognize that the denial of an abortion-cancer link is a lie. The cancer establishment admits that childbearing, especially starting early (the earlier the first birth, the lower the risk), and increased duration of breastfeeding, significantly reduce breast cancer risk.
Yet, the cancer fundraising industry's feminists can't set aside their ideology for the sake of saving women's lives. Abortion robs women of crucial opportunities to dramatically reduce their risk for the disease. Logically, if childbearing reduces risk, then the woman who aborts has a greater breast cancer risk than does the woman who has a baby.
Vellacott's press release and our commentary appear below. Read on and spread the word.
Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
ABORTION-BREAST CANCER NEWS HEADLINES
"What the Canadian Cancer Society isn't telling CBC's Wendy Mesley could be killing Canadian women"
Press Release
By Maurice Vellacott, Member of the Canadian Parliament
http://www.mauricevellacott.com/Newsroom/March%2016,%202006%20-%20ABC%20and%20Wendy%20Mesley%20cancer%20program.pdf
"Canadian MP Maurice Vellacott Chastises the Canadian Cancer Society for withholding cancer evidence"
By Karen Malec
March 28, 2006
A member of the Canadian Parliament issued a press release on March 16 chastising the Canadian Cancer Society for withholding evidence of risk factors for breast cancer. Maurice Vellacott, Conservative MP for Saskatoon/Wanuskewin, entitled the press release, "What the Canadian Cancer Society isn't telling CBC's Wendy Mesley could be killing Canadian women."
The press release came in response to a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary, "Chasing the Cancer Answer," by Wendy Mesley, which was aired on the program, "Marketplace."
In his opening statement, Vellacott asked, "If the Canadian Cancer Society isn't telling women the truth about the birth control pill's link to breast cancer, what else is the Canadian Cancer Society withholding?"
Vellacott asked the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) to re-examine the research supporting an abortion-breast cancer link and called abortion a "preventable" risk factor for the disease.
Mesley interviewed Dr. Samuel Epstein, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, and author of eleven books.
Epstein asserted that the Canadian cancer establishment has withheld evidence of preventable causes of cancer and that Canadians are experiencing an epidemic of cancer.
In a commentary for the Los Angeles Times in 2003, Epstein and his colleague, Quentin Young, MD, past president of the American Public Health Association, claimed that the cancer establishment had "suppressed evidence of causation that it had in its possession." [1]
The cancer fundraising industry is accountable to no one and stands to benefit monetarily from the suppression of evidence of causation.
Epstein, a long-time critic of the American Cancer Society and the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI), told Mesley that widespread promotion and use of the birth control pill is the "largest, unregulated human trial that's ever been conducted."
Although the cancer establishment had sufficient evidence in 1988 that steroidal estrogens - used in hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and oral contraceptives (OCs) - increase cancer risk, cancer experts did not inform women of the carcinogenicity of these drugs until recently. [2]
Last year, the World Health Organization labeled combined HRT (estrogen plus progestagen) and combined OCs as "Group 1 carcinogens." [3,4] Combined HRT raises risk of breast cancer and endometrial cancer. Combined OCs raises risk for cancers of the breast, liver and cervix. These findings provide additional evidence supporting an abortion-cancer link.
Many U.S. experts have advised women to take OCs in order to reduce risk of endometrial and ovarian cancers, even though more than twice as many U.S. women die every year from cancers of the breast, liver and cervix than die of endometrial and ovarian cancers.
Breast cancer is the greatest cause of cancer in Canadian women. One in nine Canadian women develops the disease, and one in 27 dies of it.
Mesley asked Barbara Wylie of the CCS why the World Health Organization's findings weren't reported to Canadian women. Wylie lightly responded, "I'll have our folks take a look at it, Wendy."
As of March 28, 2006, oral contraceptives are still not listed on the CCS web page that identifies risk factors for the disease. [5]
In his press release, Vellacott cited research supporting an abortion-cancer link and dating to 1957, Vellacott referred the CCS to websites belonging to the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer (http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com), the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute (http://www.bcpinstitute.org) and Life Canada (http://www.abortionbreastcancer.ca).
Vellacott pointed to a review of 10 recent prospective studies by Professor Joel Brind, president of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, which was published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons in December 2005. [<http://www.jpands.org/vol10no4/brind.pdf>]
Brind identified severe flaws and violations of the scientific method in the 10 studies. Cancer fundraising businesses use these studies to deny an abortion-cancer link. Brind said the 10 studies do not invalidate the substantially larger and more diverse body of research that supports a link.
On its web page addressing the abortion-cancer research, the CCS inaccurately states that the research does not support a link. The CCS refers readers to the U.S. National Cancer Institute's (NCI) website for further information.
The NCI has been the primary force in covering up the existence of abortion-cancer research for the last 49 years. Government-funded scientists working in this field have privately complained that the agency has pressured them not to report evidence of a link. The NCI supports its denial of a link by using research [6,7] that others say is seriously flawed. [8,9,10,11,12,13]
This is the same agency that posted on its website an lie about the research in 1999 by claiming that support for an abortion-cancer link was based on "limited experimental data in rats and is not consistent with human data." [14]
It's the same agency that denied a tobacco-cancer link in 1954, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. [15] The NCI also delayed acknowledgment of "long-standing evidence predicting up to 210,000 thyroid cancers" due to radioactive fallout from atomic bomb tests in Nevada in the 1950s. [1] The government's victims weren't warned about the risk until 1997. Many cancers might have been prevented through the use of thyroid medication.
The CCS identifies childlessness among the risk factors for breast cancer on its website. Obviously, the childless woman who aborts all of her pregnancies will remain childless for the rest of her life. Nevertheless, the CCS expects Canadians to believe that the childless woman who aborts will not have a greater breast cancer risk than the woman who has a baby.
The CCS also lists "first pregnancy after age 30" as a risk factor - a misrepresentation of research findings that leads women to believe (incorrectly) that "a little bit of pregnancy" (i.e., miscarriage or abortion) at age 30 or younger has a risk-reducing effect. On the contrary, the medical consensus for over two decades has been that the later a woman has her first child, the greater her breast cancer risk is. [16] Moreover, only a full term pregnancy reduces breast cancer risk.
Vellacott said the Breast Cancer Society of Canada claims on its website that "The cause of breast cancer is unknown and cannot be prevented." In fact, there are many ways to prevent the disease. Besides abortion, other causes of the disease include: benzopyrenes in cigarette smoke, radiation to the breast, use of diethylstilbesterol (DES), and increased lifetime exposure to estrogen.
Women are overexposed to estrogen through the use of drugs - HRT and OCs. Childless women and women with smaller families have more menstrual cycles throughout their lives (and, therefore, greater exposure to estrogen) than do women with larger families.
Women are also overexposed to estrogen through postmenopausal obesity, residues in foods and the effects of alcohol consumption on the liver.
Women who choose abortion or who have premature births are overexposed to estrogen during the first two trimesters of pregnancy. The hormone stimulates normal and cancer-vulnerable breast cells to proliferate (thereby causing breast growth). Estrogen can directly cause cancer cells to form. Abortion and premature birth deprive women of a third trimester process that would have protected them from estrogen overexposure by shutting off the ability of the cells to proliferate and shaping the tissue into cancer-resistant tissue.
Vellacott concluded his press release by asking, "I wonder how much money the Canadian Cancer Society is receiving from pharmaceutical companies?" He noted that cancer drugs "will be the fastest growing class of drugs in the world" this year, "exceeding $37 billion in sales."
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3. 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.
4. 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>.
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<http://www.AbortionBreastCancer.com/Brind_NCBQ.PDF>.
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11. Furton E. Editorial. The corruption of science by ideology. Ethics and Medics (Dec. 2004) Vol. 29, No. 11, p. 1-2. Available at:
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12. Schlafly A. Legal implications of a link between abortion and breast cancer. J Am Phys Surgeons 2005;10:11-14. Available at:
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13. Lanfranchi A. The science, studies and sociology of the abortion-breast cancer link. Research Bulletin 2005;18:1-8. Available at:
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14. "Abortion and Breast Cancer." Transcript of the talks by Professor Joel Brind and Professor Robert Burton at an Endeavour Forum Public Meeting. Malvern, Victoria, Australia. August 24, 1999.
15. "Tobacco Industry Denies Cancer Tie." New York Times, April 14, 1954, page 51.
16. Trichopoulos D, Hsieh C, MacMahon B, et al. Age at any birth and breast cancer risk. Int J Cancer 1983;31:701-704.
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
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