Dear Friends:

We provide an article discussing a meeting between Colorado Right to Life officials and officials from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. 

Eve Sanchez Silver of Clear Research and Professor Joel Brind of Baruch College participated in the meeting and concluded that Komen's Denver officials seemed to be uninformed about basic breast physiology.  They were stunned to learn that the female breast never fully matures into cancer-resistant tissue until during the last eight weeks of pregnancy.

Perhaps Komen should focus more on preventing the disease than making money and giving it to Planned Parenthood, which only perpetuates the epidemic.

Sincerely,
Karen Malec
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer

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Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Colorado Right to Life Officials Meet to Discuss Denver's Race for the Cure / Komen's Officials Said to Lack Basic Knowledge of Breast Physiology

Colorado Right to Life issued a press release on October 4 indicating that officials from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation sought a meeting with their officials concerning Sunday's Race for the Cure in Denver.  Colorado Right to Life distributes thousands of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer's brochures at the Race for the Cure yearly and has in the past hired a mobile truck advertising the Coalition's website.

The meeting took place a day before their banquet featuring Eve Sanchez Silver, former Latina adviser for the Komen Foundation.  Silver resigned from Komen in September 2004 after reading a Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer press release, which revealed that Komen gives funds to Planned Parenthood and the abortion-breast cancer research. 

Silver was previously unaware of these facts, and she felt offended by Komen's gifts to the abortion provider.  Planned Parenthood has a history of eugenics, and its founder, Margaret Sanger, frequently spoke of her objective to rid the world of people of color.  Most of its abortion clinics are located in minority neighborhoods.

Silver has had two abortions, and she has had breast cancer twice. 

Baruch College professor Joel Brind, an international expert on the link between abortion and increased breast cancer risk, participated in the meeting (via conference call) with officials from both organizations and Silver. 

Brind noted that breast cancer rates had climbed by more than 40% in the U.S. since the mid-1980's, according to a report by the American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control, and the U.S. National Cancer Institute in 2001. [1] According to the report, the only generation that suffered the increase in breast cancer cases was the Roe v. Wade generation, i.e. women under age 40 in 1973 when abortion became legally available.

Brind further noted that in 1996 his team of researchers from Penn State accurately predicted this increase after they reviewed 23 studies in the medical literature and found 18 that reported risk increases for women who had abortions. [2]

The problem is that abortion enthusiasts in the cancer establishment responded to the Brind team's conclusions by hastily publishing a seriously flawed Danish study and using this one study to debunk decades of biological, epidemiological and experimental research showing that women who have abortions are more likely to develop breast cancer. [3]

During the meeting, Brind attributed the increase in breast cancer rates during the last several decades to abortion and use of combined (estrogen plus progestin) oral contraceptives, whose drugs can also be delivered by injection, implant, transdermal patch, and vaginal ring.

The World Health Organization (WHO) last year classified combined oral contraceptives (COCs) and combined hormone replacement therapy as "carcinogenic to humans." [4,5]  (They both contain the same drugs, but few know that COCs include even higher doses.)

The WHO stated that COCs cause cancers of the breast, liver and cervix, but they protect women from endometrial and ovarian cancers.  Yet, twice as many women die of the first group of cancers every year.  Therefore, it is a poor trade off for American women, especially when childbearing protects against cancers of the breast, uterus and ovary anyway.

After the meeting, Silver concluded that Komen's officials "did not appear to have knowledge of simple breast facts and were more concerned about assisting women after they had contracted breast cancer, than informing them to avoid breast cancer risk by avoiding abortions and having early, first full term pregnancies with breastfeeding.  This is an appalling lack of concern for the women.  The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is supposed to be helping," said Silver.

Silver pointed out that it came as a surprise to Komen's Denver officials that the female breast does not fully mature from cancer vulnerable tissue into cancer resistant tissue until during the last eight weeks of a full term pregnancy.  Silver explained that this is the reason why the "interruption of pregnancy before 32 weeks leaves breast cells exposed to estrogen, which is highly carcinogenic."

Beginning early in a normal pregnancy (not most first trimester miscarriages), the hormone estrogen, which is a known carcinogen, stimulates the woman's cancer-vulnerable Type 1 and 2 lobules to multiply.  Estrogen causes breast growth during pregnancy.

If the woman has an abortion or a premature birth before 32 weeks gestation, then she is left with more cancer vulnerable lobules than she had before she became pregnant.  If she has a full term pregnancy, she is left with more cancer-resistant lobules than she had before she became pregnant.

Komen's officials from other parts of the country have argued in the past that they give donations to Planned Parenthood for breast health services.  However, Planned Parenthood's report shows that its breast health services declined, while its abortion services increased.  Funds can easily be moved from one side of a business to another.

Most women who visit Planned Parenthood are too young to develop breast cancer.  The funds should have been given to any one of a number of health facilities around the country that provide comprehensive breast health services.

It's unseemly for a cancer group to give funds to Planned Parenthood when scientists universally agree that the best way to prevent breast cancer is to have more children, starting at an early age, and breastfeed them longer.  By giving funds to Planned Parenthood and denying a half-century of research that links abortion with increased breast cancer risk, Komen is perpetuating the breast cancer epidemic. 

By focusing on cancer treatment instead of cancer prevention, Komen creates the appearance that breast cancer fundraising has become more of a business than a compassionate effort to help women.

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References:

1. Howe HL, Wingo PA, Thun MJ, Ries LA, Rosenberg HM, Feigal EG, Edwards BK. Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1973 through 1998, featuring cancers with recent increasing trends. J Natl Cancer Inst 2001;93:824-842.

2. 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.

3. Melbye M, Wohlfahrt J, Olson JH, Frisch M, Westergaard T, Helweg-Larsen K, Andersen PK. Induced abortion and the risk of breast cancer. N Engl J Med 1997;336:81-85.

4. 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.

5. 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>.

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.

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

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