RW Catholic Group Confirms: Komen's announcement simply a PLOY

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59. RW garbage... All authoritative sources have debunked (INCLUDING KOMEN)

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/causes/ere/workshop-report

National Cancer Institute Findings:

Introduction

The Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer Workshop convened February 24-26, 2003, and the outcomes of the meeting were reviewed and discussed at the joint meeting of the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA) and Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) held March 3, 2003.

The Workshop was established to provide an integrated scientific assessment of the association between reproductive events and the risk of breast cancer. Participants represented a diversity of breast cancer expertise, including epidemiologists, clinicians, basic scientists and breast cancer advocates. The Workshop evaluated the current strength of evidence of the characteristics of pregnancy related to cancer (epidemiologic studies), the biologic changes resulting from pregnancy that may be involved in modifying breast cancer risk (clinical studies), and the biologic mechanisms identified (animal studies).

This report summarizes the epidemiologic, clinical and animal studies findings related to early reproductive events and breast cancer risk, and each finding is given a Strength of Evidence Rating*. Gaps in research knowledge for each scientific area are identified, and recommendations for future research directions are provided.

Epidemiologic Findings

Early age at first term birth is related to lifetime decrease in breast cancer risk. (1)
Increasing parity is associated with a long-term risk reduction, even when controlling for age at first birth. (1)
The additional long-term protective effect of young age at subsequent term pregnancies is not as strong as for the first term pregnancy. (1)
A nulliparous woman has approximately the same risk as a woman with a first term birth around age 30. (1)
Breast cancer risk is transiently increased after a term pregnancy. (1)
Induced abortion is not associated with an increase in breast cancer risk. (1)
Recognized spontaneous abortion is not associated with an increase in breast cancer risk. (1)
Long duration of lactation provides a small additional reduction in breast cancer risk after consideration of age at and number of term pregnancies. (1)
Pregnancy-induced hypertension is associated with decreased breast cancer risk. (2)
Maternal DES exposure is associated with an increase in breast cancer risk. (3)

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American Cancer Society:

http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BreastCancer/MoreInformation/is-abortion-linked-to-breast-cancer
After adjusting for known breast cancer risk factors, the researchers found that induced abortion(s) had no overall effect on the risk of breast cancer. The size of this study and the manner in which it was done provide good evidence that induced abortion does not affect a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer.

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Susan G. Komen

http://ww5.komen.org/BreastCancer/Table25Abortionandbreastcancerrisk.html
Research clearly shows abortion (also called induced abortion) does not increase the risk of breast cancer. In 2003, the Board of Scientific Advisors and Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) unanimously agreed the scientific evidence did not support a link between abortion and breast cancer [1]. (The NCI routinely reviews the evidence on this topic and continues to agree the evidence does not support a link between the two [2]). Also, later that year in 2003, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists also stated there was no evidence to support a link between abortion and breast cancer [3].