National Cancer Institute and Academia Cover Up ABC Link.

Writing in the current issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Dr Angela Lanfranchi's "Federal Government and Academic Texts as Barriers to Informed Consent" illuminates the many ways the public has been kept in the dark about evidence that documents a link between induced abortion and breast cancer (the ABC link). It is very useful reading.

No organization has done more to bury the evidence than the National Cancer Institute (NCI), which is part of the National Institutes of Health. The bottom line is found on the NCI web page: "having an abortion or miscarriage does not increase a woman's subsequent risk of developing breast cancer."

Dr. Lanfranchi's comprehensive review concludes that there is "blatantly incorrect information given to patients by the NCI web site." For example, exposure to estrogen is associated with increased likelihood of breast cancer. The NCI web site falsely says that "estrogen levels are lower during pregnancy."

In fact, estrogen levels rise 2000% by the end of the first trimester and continue to rise during pregnancy. The NCI has mangled the biology of breast maturation.

Pregnancy does lower breast cancer risk, but only if the pregnancy goes beyond 32 weeks. In fact, prior to 32 weeks, the risk is higher because more cancer-vulnerable Type 1 and 2 lobules have been created.

In a normal pregnancy, there is a self-correcting mechanism in place. After 32 weeks, 85% of these lobules will have matured into cancer-resistant Type 4 lobules which do greatly reduce the mother's breast cancer risk.

Lanfranchi also discusses a 2003 NCI Workshop on "Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer Risk." The NCI workshop brought together 100 scientists who, save one, concluded that abortion and breast cancer were not linked and that the subject should be not be studied further.