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Letters.
Make Womb for Caution Label
Mothers should be required to advise their fetuses that, because of the unyielding exposure to the known carcinogen estrogen and the potential carcinogen progesterone, the fetuses are at increased risk for stroke, heart disease, and breast cancer, according to the Women's Health Initiative ("WHI Data Prompt Strict Warnings on Hormone Products," Feb. 15, 2003, p. 1).
Furthermore, girls should be castrated before puberty to prevent them from producing estrogen and therefore increasing their breast cancer risk 100-fold. While we're at it, let's also castrate boys so they won't get testosterone-induced prostate cancers later in life. Come to think of it, maybe I can start a class-action lawsuit against all mothers. After all, my mother exposed me to that awful carcinogenic chemical while I was a poor, helpless fetus. Where was the Food and Drug Administration?
Did anybody really read the WHI report? It sure doesn't seem like it. The WHI ...
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- Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News DeMott, Kathryn December 15, 2001 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 29, 2003 700+ words
...transdermal patch. The results of the study, which was the largest and most definitive placebo-controlled testosterone replacement study ever conducted, were presented today at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) in Chicago...
- Testosterone replacement study nixed by government. (Rx/News).
- Magazine article from: Chain Drug Review September 30, 2002 700+ words
...canceled a large-scale study of hormone replacement therapy in women, it halted a proposed six-year study of testosterone replacement...older men. As was the case with prescriptions of estrogen for women, the use of testosterone as a means to counteract aging has...
