Letterwriter offers research findings

To the Editor:

I failed to include my research findings warranting my concern over the connection between the American Cancer Society and Planned Parenthood with my first letter. Here are a few substantiating facts for your readers' consideration.

First, oral contraception has been proven to increase a woman's risk of breast, cervical, and liver cancer. Please see the press release issued on July 29, of 2005 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a division of the World Health Organization, which declares the classification of combined estrogen-progestrogen oral contraceptives as carcinogenic.

The IARC placed the contraceptives into their Group 1 classification, the highest classification of carcinogenicity, used only "when there is sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in humans." Similar findings have been found in a Mayo Clinic article titled Oral Contraception Use as a Risk Factor For Premenapausel Breast Cancer dated October 2006.

Furthermore, it is highly plausible that there is a connection between abortion and breast cancer. Dr. Joel Brind, Professor of Biology, Chemistry, and Endocrinology at Baruch College, the city of New York, has written and lectured extensively on the connection between induced abortion and breast cancer. His research paper on the subject, Induced Abortion as an Independent Risk Factor for Breast Cancer: A Comprehensive Review and Meta-Analysis, which he wrote in collaboration with colleagues at the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA, appeared in the October 1996 issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Published by the British Medical Association.

Also the conclusions of the study published in the summer 2003 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons titled The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link: How Politics Trumped Science and Informed Consent discusses the epidemiological (the way a disease spreads in a population) evidence of an abortion-breast cancer link.

Michelle Quearry

Bloomfield