Abortion Raises Breast Cancer Risk A Resource for Crisis
Pregnancy Centers Karen Malec, Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer,
www.AbortionBreastCancer.com Angela Lanfranchi, MD, FACS, Breast
Cancer Prevention Institute, www.BCPInstitute.org
www.BCPInstitute.org Slide 2 PART II Slide 3 Table of Contents PART
II Why the U.S. National Cancer Institute Isnt Reliable: The
Agencys 2003 Workshop, Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer
Parallels to the Tobacco-Cancer Cover-Up Slide 4 U.S. National
Cancer Institutes 2003 Workshop Early Reproductive Events and
Breast Cancer a political sham Slide 5 One-hundred scientists
attended a 3-day workshop on the abortion-breast cancer link, Early
Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer, in February of 2003. They
concluded: Induced abortion is not associated with an increase in
breast cancer risk. Slide 6 Leaders of the NCIs sham Workshop Slide
7 Dr. Andrew Von Eschenbach Director, U.S. National Cancer
Institute in 2003 Slide 8 Dr. Andrew Von Eschenbach falsely told
the New York Times Dr. Andrew Von Eschenbach falsely told the New
York Times that scientists at the workshop had conducted a
comprehensive review of the worldwide research. "A Conversation
with Andrew Von Eschenbach; Director Tries to Untangle Web of
Cancer Controversies," New York Times, March 11, 2003. The Truth
The NCIs online videocast shows that only studies showing no
abortion- breast cancer link were reviewed. Scientists were not
invited to present the opposing view that abortion raises risk.
Video available at: http://www.videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp
Slide 9 Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D. leader/moderator of NCIs workshop
Leading experts whose research had reported an abortion-breast
cancer link (i.e. Janet Daling and Joel Brind) were not invited to
present this view at the workshop. But Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D.
(biostatistician and epidemiologist with the City of Hope) was
invited to be the leading presenter on the abortion-breast cancer
link, even though her area of expertise centers on the effects of
exercise and obesity on breast cancer risk. Slide 10 Leslie
Bernstein, Ph.D. leader/moderator of NCIs workshop After the
workshop, Dr. Bernstein Told A Reporter at CancerPage.com why she
didnt want women to know the truth about the abortion-breast cancer
link. Slide 11 Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D. Told Journalist Rachel Lowe
at CancerPage.com "The biggest bang for the buck is the first
birth, and the younger you are, the better off you are. I would
never be a proponent of going around and telling them that having
babies is the way to reduce your risk.... I don't want the issue
relating to induced abortion to breast cancer risk to be part of
the mix of the discussion of induced abortion, its legality, its
continued availability." Lowe RM, NCI scientific panel concludes
abortion has no impact on breast cancer risk. CancerPage.com, March
3, 2003. Available
at:.http://www.cancerpage.com/news/article.asp?id=5601 Slide 12
Abortion Providers Paid Experts Invited to the Workshop The NCI
invited two experts who had previously testified on behalf of
abortion providers in the most radical kind of pro-abortion
litigation brought against the states of Florida and Alaska because
their legislatures had passed parental notice or consent laws. Lynn
Rosenberg, Ph.D. (Boston Medical School) testified on behalf of
Florida abortion providers represented by the Center for
Reproductive Law and Policy and was compelled under oath to admit
that the 15-year-old who has an abortion has a greater risk than
does the 15-year-old who has a baby. This was an acknowledgment of
the risk-reducing effect of full term pregnancy only, not the
independent link. Rosenberg (1999) NW FL Womens Health vs. State of
FL, FL Circuit Ct., 2nd circ., videotape deposition of 11/18/99,
pp. 77-78 Slide 13 NCI Leaders Invited Abortion Providers Paid
Experts to the Workshop The NCI invited Julie Palmer, Ph.D. (Slone
Epidemiology Center, Boston University School of Public Health) to
participate as an expert at the workshop. Palmer had served as a
paid expert on behalf of abortion providers in a 2002 lawsuit they
brought against the State of Alaska because its legislature had
passed a parental notice law. Videotape deposition of Dr. Julie
Palmer, Planned Parenthood et al. vs. State of Alaska, Superior
Court for the State of Alaska, 3rd Judicial District, Case No. 3AN
97-6014 Civil Both Palmer & Rosenberg have authored research
finding that abortion is linked to increased breast cancer risk,
independently of the loss of the protective effect of full term
pregnancy (meaning abortion leaves the breasts with more places for
cancers to start.) Palmer et al. Cancer Causes Control 1997;8:841-
849. Rosenberg et al. Am J Epidemiol 1988;127:981-989. Slide 14
National Cancer Institute Branch Chief Louise Brinton, Ph.D.,
M.P.H., was the chief organizer of the NCIs phony 2003 workshop.
But in 2009, Dr. Brinton co-authored a study, led by Jessica Dolle,
focusing on the link between the pill and triple- negative breast
cancer. The authors reported a statistically significant 40%
increased risk among women with abortions. Dolle et al. Cancer
Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 2009;18(4)1157-1166 Slide 15
Text The following known and suspected breast cancer risk factors
were examined separately as potential confounders for the main
effects of all other risk factors in age-adjusted models: age (at
reference), race, education, annual income, family history of
breast cancer, body mass index (BMI; kilogram per square meter) 1
year before reference, smoking history, alcohol consumption, age at
menarche, number of live births, age at first birth (still or
live), lactation history (among parous women), abortion history
(among gravid women), and oral contraceptive use (never/
