Editor’s Note: 5/26/2022 The National Cancer Institute says on its website: “The relationship between induced and spontaneous abortion and breast cancer has been the subject of extensive research beginning in the late 1950s. … The newer studies consistently showed no association between induced and spontaneous abortions and breast cancer risk.” In 2003, the institute held a workshop that brought together “over 100 of the world’s leading experts who study pregnancy and breast cancer risk.” A summary of their conclusions published on the institute’s website says: “They concluded that having an abortion or miscarriage does not increase a woman’s subsequent risk of developing breast cancer.” The “Epidemiologic Findings” of this workshop concluded that: “Early age at first term birth is related to lifetime decrease in breast cancer risk. … A nulliparous woman [one who has not borne a child] has approximately the same risk as a woman with a first term birth around age 30. … Induced abortion is not associated with an increase in breast cancer risk. Recognized spontaneous abortion is not associated with an increase in breast cancer risk. Long duration of lactation provides a small additional reduction in breast cancer risk after consideration of age at and number of term pregnancies. Pregnancy-induced hypertension is associated with decreased breast cancer risk.”
Medical Groups Recognizing Link between abortion and breast cancer:
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/medicalgroups/index.htm
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Canadian Breast Cancer Association:
http://www.cbcf.org/breastcancer/bc_whatbc_bc.asp
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Abortion in Canada:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Canada