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>TOAbortion and breast cancer Charnette's story: finding healing after abortion.
Although she did not know it at the time, Charnette Mess's crusade began March 7, 2002, when she was diagnosed with advanced-stage breast cancer. Only 31 years old, with no family history of the disease, her doctors were shocked at the test results.
But Mess had a painful secret that could provide an explanation: she had undergone an abortion 10 years earlier. Now, armed with personal knowledge of the link between abortion and breast cancer, Mess is working to spread the word to women that when they choose abortion they may be at risk of developing breast cancer.
"My baby is gone and is never coming back," Mess told NRL News. "I had a baby in my womb and I allowed someone to take my baby from me. That's a greater pain than losing a breast at 31."
Mess wants women to know that breast cancer can strike women in their 20s and 30s, especially if they have had abortions. "If I had known before my abortion that I could be increasing my risk of breast cancer, my choice may have been different," said Mess. She continues to fight the cancer, undergoing chemotherapy and a mastectomy.
She said that at first her doctors refused to believe she had breast cancer.
"If they had mentioned abortion as a possible red flag, maybe I would have come clean sooner," Mess said. "Women who have a history of abortion - - even if they're under the ago of 40 - - should be given screening for breast cancer."
Mess's plea is supported by many studies that have shown that abortion increases a woman's chance of getting breast cancer.
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