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Kermaline Cotterman <[log in to unmask]>
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Diana in NY writes:

<I have two ideas -- one is that we're simply diagnosing more of the cases
thanks to better technology (not just mammograms -- ultrasound, bioelectric
impedance, etc.).  The other is vaccines...could the advent of mass
vaccination have anything to do with the increase in cancer rates in
general?>


Judy writes:
<  It is now up to 1 in 6 in some areas
of our country.  Some possible reasons:

1.  Near cessation of breastfeeding with WWII and thereafter (LLL began
in 1956)
2.  Introduction of the birth control pill and hormone replacement =
therapy. (The Pill came on the market in 1962 and Premarin in 1942. A
Manhattan gyn Robert Wilson published Feminine Forever in 1966, lauding HRT
for youthfulness.)
3.  More and various chemicals ending up in our body fat. (Israel banned
some organochloride pesticides in the 1970's and their highest breast cancer
rates declined.)
4.  rBgh hormone now in dairy products and DES residues previously found  in
meat before being banned

Here is what Dr. Samuel Epstein MD, author of *Cancer-Gate: How to Win  the
Losing Cancer War* 2005 and *Politics of Cancer* 1979 says about it:
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=3D1304

Anyone have any more ideas? =20
This doctor does:
http://drhotzeblog.netymology.com/2006/09/11/broken-promises-the-history-=
of-
hrt-2/la



http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3D17298792&BRD=3D1672&PAG=
=3D461&de
pt_id=3D32099&rfi=3D6

Clicking each of these 3 URL's continues to yield messages about
'unavailable', so I don't know if yet another factor was mentioned. I
recently attended a conference on Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing
which included a breast surgeon and a breast cancer researcher among the
speakers. The point was made that early in a healthy pregnancy, the breast
is bombarded with a huge dose of hormones as part of the normal cycle of
physiological preparation designed to take place in the breast during
pregancy.


When medical-surgical abortion ends a pregnancy, the breast's stimulation is
also aborted in mid-pattern causing subsequent early involution of the
partially formed breast tissue. This is not the same situation as in a
spontaneous abortiion (miscarriage) as the hormonal levels usually seem to
differ because the pregnancy is less likely to have been normal in all
aspects.


The conclusion was that therefore the number of medical-surgical abortions
in a woman's reproductive history is a factor in increased risk for
future breast cancer.


Abortion became legal in the U.S in 1973. Millions of abortions have taken
place since that time, meaning that millions of hormonal breast stimulation
patterns have also been aborted in the last 30+ years.


Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, OH USA

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