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OTTAWA
– “If the Canadian Cancer Society is not telling
Canadians the truth about the birth control pill’s
link to breast cancer, what else is the Canadian Cancer
Society withholding?” asked MP Maurice Vellacott,
commenting on CBC reporter Wendy Mesley’s documentary,
“Chasing the Cancer Answer” which aired recently
on CBC’s Marketplace.
Pathologist
Dr. Samuel Epstein, a professor at the University of
Chicago and author of the book, Cancer-Gate: How to
win the losing cancer war, told Mesley that Canada is
in a cancer epidemic and the Canadian cancer establishment
is not informing Canadians about the vast body of information
on the avoidable causes of cancer.
When
asked about the birth control pill, Dr. Epstein told
Mesley, “The pill is the largest unregulated human
trial that’s ever been conducted.” The World
Health Organization issued a press release in July 2005
stating that the birth control pill is carcinogenic
and slightly increases the risk of cervical, liver and
breast cancer. When questioned why this updated warning
was not passed on to Canadian women, Barbara Wylie of
the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) told Mesley, “I’ll
have our folks take a look at it, Wendy.”
“In
the interests of women, I hope the Canadian Cancer Society
will also take a look at another risk factor for breast
cancer, and a preventable one at that,” Vellacott
said. “Induced abortion.” Since 1957, evidence
linking induced abortion to breast cancer has been observed
in over 40 studies worldwide. A 1996 meta-analysis conducted
by Dr. Joel Brind, professor of endocrinology at Baruch
College, City University of New York, established abortion
as a significant independent risk factor for developing
breast cancer. (See www.abortionbreastcancer.ca,
and www.bcpinstitute.org;
also see Dr. Brind’s Dec. 2005 critical review
of all the recent studies over the last 9 years at http://www.jpands.org/vol10no4/brind.pdf;
to reach Dr. Joel Brind, email: info@bcpinstitute.org
or phone: (732) 356-0770.)
“In
the interests of women’s health, I have previously
corresponded with the Canadian Cancer Society on this
issue, but they refused to take a serious look at the
relationship between abortion and breast cancer as I
requested,” Vellacott said.
The
Canadian Cancer Society’s website claims that scientific
evidence does not support the relationship between abortion
and breast cancer. “There is not only strong epidemiological
evidence to support the link, but also a very plausible
biological basis for it as well, according to Dr. Angela
Lanfranchi, Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School,” said Vellacott.
“It has to do with the natural maturation process
of breast cells during pregnancy,” Vellacott explained.
“When a woman becomes pregnant, changes occur in
the breast tissue cells in preparation for lactation—the
cells multiply rapidly and become susceptible to cancer
due to the large amounts of estrogen present during
early pregnancy. But as the pregnancy is allowed to
continue past 32 weeks, the cells undergo another change
which causes them to mature into milk-producing cells
resistant to cancer. So when a pregnancy is abruptly
terminated during an induced abortion, the maturation
process is halted and the immature cells remain in the
cancer-vulnerable state.” (Contact Angela Lanfranchi,
MD FACS at info@bcpinstitute.org
or (845) 452-0797 for a detailed explanation of this
process.)
According
to the Canadian Cancer Society, breast cancer is the
most common cancer among Canadian women and an average
of 102 Canadian women will die of breast cancer every
week. According to the Breast Cancer Society of Canada,
“The cause of breast cancer is unknown and cannot
be prevented.” According to Dr. Epstein, we are
waiting until people get cancer, then we try to treat
it. In 2006, cancer drugs will be the fastest growing
class of pharmaceuticals in the world, exceeding $37
billion in sales.
Vellacott
asks, “Why will the Canadian Cancer Society not
take an objective look at what the research says about
the link between abortion and breast cancer if they’re
serious about prevention?” Dr. Epstein accuses
the cancer establishment of “damage control”
(screening, diagnosis, treatment) rather than prevention.
Vellacott notes that pharmaceutical companies don’t
make money by preventing cancer. The Canadian Cancer
Society spends only 10% of its budget on cancer prevention,
according to the Marketplace Documentary. Vellacott
asks, “I wonder how much money the Canadian Cancer
Society is receiving from pharmaceutical companies?
I hope that the cancer establishment does not let interests
other than women’s health dictate its business.”
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call 613-992-1966 or 613-297-2249
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