National Cancer Institute Should Tell Women of Abortion-Breast Cancer Link

by Bill Saunders Washington, DC
LifeNews.com | 11/9/10

For years the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has denied a link between abortion and breast cancer. But NCI may soon have to apologize to the women it has misled—because one of its own researchers is starting to acknowledge the link.

In the last 18 months alone, five studies have demonstrated an increased risk of breast cancer following abortion. One of those studies, co-authored by Louise Briton, a NCI branch chief, found a statistically significant 40 percent increased risk of breast cancer following abortion.

The study also acknowledged that its findings were “consistent with the effects observed in previous studies on younger women. Specifically, older age, family history of breast cancer, earlier menarche age, induced abortion, and oral contraceptive use were associated with an increased risk for breast cancer.”  the rest