Study Confirms Abortion Triples Breast Cancer Risk Among Sri Lanka Women

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
June 22, 2010
Washington, DC

(LifeNews.com) -- A new study coming from researchers in Sri Lanka finds women who had abortions more than triple their breast cancer risk compared with wome who carry their pregnancy to term. The study was published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology and found a 3.42 odds ratio against women having abortions compared with those who kept their baby.

Abortion was the most significant factor in the study on breast cancer risk and researchers found a significantly reduced risk associated with prolonged duration of breastfeeding a newborn.
Malintha De Silva and colleagues from the University of Colombo led the study.

The Sri Lankan study is the fourth epidemiological study in fourteen months to report an abortion-breast cancer link, including studies from the U.S., China and Turkey. the rest