Yesterday, network news was reporting on a new study suggesting that a family history of prostate cancer may increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer ~

Women whose father, brother or son have had prostate cancer may have a 14 percent higher risk of developing breast cancer, said Jennifer Beebe-Dimmer, a researcher at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University in Detroit.

It’s clearly important to be aware of the risk factors. But it would sure be great if the mainstream media were as diligent in reporting the link between abortion and breast cancer. Especially since pregnancy termination represents a much higher – and 100% preventable – risk than a genetic prostate cancer link.
 
But you have to go online to find out ~

Abortion and Breast Cancer: The Stubborn Link Returns
 
The pro-choice crowd have for years tried to pretend there is no real correlation between the two, despite studies showing otherwise. New statistics are increasingly difficult to ignore ~

… the ABC (abortion-breast cancer) link is showing up, conspicuously, as millions of women worldwide who have had abortions over the past several decades are coming down with breast cancer at alarmingly increased rates. Dozens of papers are being published that show the trend.

 
Written by Joel Brind (professor of biology and endocrinology at Baruch College, City University of New York, and a board member and co-founder of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute), this NRO article essentially rebuts prominent abortion practitioner and promoter David Grimes’ assertion that the ABC link was debunked years ago. But to dismiss the connection, Grimes and others relied on flawed methodology and even fictitious data.

All of Grimes’s rehashing and misrepresentation of bad science might be funny were the ABC link not devastating so many women’s lives. In this regard it is hardly funny that Grimes is silent on the veritable tsunami of ABC-link evidence that has poured in from Asia in just the past few years. A 2014 meta-analysis of 36 studies from mainland China reported a 44 percent overall increase in breast-cancer risk among women who had had an abortion. But the strongest evidence comes from South Asia — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka — where the typical woman marries young, has several children and breastfeeds them all, and never drinks alcohol or smokes cigarettes. In such populations, where there is little else besides abortion to cause breast cancer, relative risks for abortion average greater than fourfold and as high as twentyfold, according to at least a dozen South Asian studies in the past five years alone.
 
Contrary to Grimes’s claim that the ABC link was long ago “debunked,” the epidemiological evidence has grown tremendously stronger. The inference of a causal association between abortion and breast cancer has become all the more compelling, with our advancing knowledge of the hormonal changes during pregnancy and of how such changes during interrupted pregnancies dovetail with the susceptibility of cells in the breast to become cancerous.

In light of these facts, it’s almost criminal neglect that Komen still doesn’t acknowledge the ABC Link and continues to repeat falsehoods.
 
Komen, PinkRibbon.org and the National Breast Cancer Foundation have been hugely successful in their awareness campaign. With all due respect – by now, I think the whole world is “aware” that there is such a thing as breast cancer. Now they need to hear the truth about what causes it ~

Induced abortion boosts breast cancer risk because it stops the normal physiological changes in the breast that occur during a full term pregnancy and that lower a mother’s breast cancer risk […]
 
Induced abortion before 32 weeks leaves the mother’s breast with more vulnerable tissue for cancer to start. It is also why any premature birth before 32 weeks, not just induced abortion, increases or doubles breast cancer risk.

According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, “the best prevention is early detection.” Excuse me people – wouldn’t it be even better to learn how to avoid the nasty disease altogether?!

 
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ABC Link ~ Lots more info on the abortion-breast cancer connection