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Below is a press release from the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. Karen Malec, its president, is one of the world’s leadiong authorities on the subject. In tight economic times, her coalition needs financial support more than ever. She has been exceedingly generous with her time and talents through the years. It’s rare that I ask for people to support a cause, and I have never asked for a penny for myself. However, Malec’s work and organization are foundational to pro-life bioethics. The data are beginning to pour in from around the world on this topic, and it’s vital that we keep Karen, the MAIN CONDUIT open. Please e as generous as your means allow.
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
Press Release
Contact: Karen Malec, 847-421-4000
Date: July 1, 2013
Indian Study: Abortion Increases Breast Cancer Risk Six-Fold
The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer reports on a study published in the Indian Journal of Community Medicine (May, 2013) whose authors found a 6.38-fold greater risk of breast cancer among women with histories of induced abortion. [1] The study, led by Ramachandra Kamath, MD (Department of Public Health, Manipal University), found induced abortion was the most important risk factor.
“With only 94 cases and 94 controls, the study was way too small for a significant risk of the order of 1.5-fold to even show up,” explained Professor Joel Brind (Baruch College, City University of New York). “Yet induced abortion did show up as the strongest risk factor (and right on the border of statistical significance) because the risk increase was so high at 6.38-fold.”
The authors found a non-statistically significant 1.76-fold risk increase among women with first births after age 30. “Medical texts acknowledge delayed first full term pregnancy is a risk factor for breast cancer,” said Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. “It’s indisputable that abortion contributes to delayed first full term pregnancies; and in some cases, women remain childless forever, which is also an accepted risk factor.”
Kamath’s group observed that India has the “largest estimated number of breast cancer deaths worldwide,” and breast cancer rates are on the rise there.
Brind said he found it “troubling that the abortion-breast cancer link is now showing up big time in the world’s most populous countries where breast cancer used to be rare. That means millions upon millions of women will die from this deadly after-effect of abortion. Consider that between India and China, we’re talking about over a billion women. If only 1% of them get breast cancer due to abortion, that’s still 10 million women, of whom at least 2 or 3 million will die from it!”
“Their deaths,” declared Malec, “can be laid at the doorstep of the U.S. National Cancer Institute whose leaders have covered up the ABC link for twenty years since the study, Daling et al. 1994, became available.” [2]
Kamath’s team noted that a 2006 Indian study, led by Manjusha Rai, had found a “significant association between abortion and breast cancer.” [3]
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.
References:
Kamath R, Mahajan KS, Ashok L, Sanai TS. A study on risk factors of breast cancer among patients attending the tertiary care hospital, in Udupi district. Indian J Community Med, 2013;38(2)95-99. Available at: .
Daling JR, Malone DE, Voigt LF, White E, Weiss NS. Risk of breast cancer among young women: relationship to induced abortion. J Natl Cancer Inst 1994;86:1584-1592. Available at: . White E, Malone KE, Weiss NS, Daling JR. Breast cancer among young US women in relation to oral contraceptive use. J Natl Cancer Inst 1994;86:505-514. Available at: .
Rai M, Pandey A, Singh M, Rai A & Shukia HS. “Assessment of epidemiological factors associated with breast cancer.” Indian J. Prev. Soc. Med. 2008;39:71-77. Available at: .
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And people ask me why I don’t support Komen…
Dr. Nadal and Dr. Brind, thank you for bringing this important message to the public. In Canada, donations for breast cancer research is the greatest compared to all other cancer research donations. YET, this organization refuses to inform the public of the link between abortion and breast cancer. It infuriates me that they are willing to take money to cure a disease but will not tell people of a significant risk factor. Also, the researchers withhold vital information to post abortive women who need to be ever more vigilant for the signs of breast cancer. The big secret must be released and hence, my sincere thanks to doctors like you.
I have known about this lie for 13 years or more. We must speak up individually. You have no idea how’s many Catholic doctors and others who now hate me cause they know the truth and know they need to speak up. The same holds truth for birth control pill. Not only breast cancer but abortion. No one will speak the TRUTH. Also the Church remains silent.
Interesting study, thanks for posting about it. However, the nearly six-fold increased risk was based on 14 cases and 4 control subjects who reported having an induced abortion. Very low numbers. With all due respect to Dr. Brind, low number increase BOTH the likelihood of type I (false positive) and type II (false negative) errors. When numbers get that small, instability in any direction is the rule. For that matter, how many of the 28 women were nulliparous? In fact, even Dr. Brind’s own meta-analyses would argue strongly against a six-fold increased risk. In my opinion, this is one more piece of a very large puzzle. Whereas I might agree that the door should not be shut on the possibility of a positive association overall, I would disagree with the notion that the available data are equivocally supportive of an association. Yes, we know that delayed first birth is a risk factor up to about age 30, but my interest lies in whether abortion increases risk above-and-beyond delaying first birth (among nulliparous women). My vote (for what it’s worth here) is to conduct further research before reaching any firm conclusion.
thank you for your abortion-induced breast cancer information to read. can see how important this situation is and what problem it can cause to women. if you would like you can keep in touch with me by mail as well at anytime to let me know how the situation is going for all on this and hope we can find an answer for it in the future.god bless fr donald thomas[for disabled people].362 springvale road.forest hill.postcode3131.melbourne.victoria australia.we will certainly pray for them as well 3,7.13 time.12.59pm
Abortion is so evil. I’m sorry to admit that I once used to read back copies of Ms. Magazine when I was a young teenager. The writings about the unfairness of life towards women rang so true to me, and the feminists were so persuasive. For about two years I was “Pro-choice.” I had NO idea!
Now I realize that life is unfair for women in many ways. But I now accept this as my cross and I will pick it up and carry it always. There are no quick and easy solutions that don’t lead straight to misery, and possibly even Hell.
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I heard about the link between breast cancer and abortion in 1993, I think, so it’s been a long time. I was AMAZED when I heard a theoretically secular breast cancer expert actually mention it on public radio, perhaps 3-4 years ago! Keep up the good work. Alas, I don’t recall the name of the person, but it was good to hear of the link OUTSIDE of the pro-life community.
As a worker in the post abortion area (17 years) also as a post abortive woman and now breast cancer patient and the ongoing treatments and fears for future (no one else in family history with breast cancer) I would like to say that women have been short changed in demands for liberalised abortion. And how not surprising that the areas most vulnerable to cancer in women are the “life” areas. I also have known about the the link between abortio and breast cancer but also believed it “wont happen to me” well it has and there is nothing I can do about it except have all the surgeries, radiation, hormone treatments and hope it does not return and perhaps no longer take life so much for granted.