Huffington Post article by Dr. Weiss

I meant "molecularly"

The biggest risk factor is being born a woman. The second biggest is growing older - which we all do every day no matter our age



The rest of it is a crap shoot



I also am tired of people making up connections between abortion and BC. That makes no sense

http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/index/

Here are many many articles and studies

Rubyeye - whoever you are - posting a link from some anti choice site still does not make your nonsense true.

There is no link, no matter how often you repeat it or what specious links you find. There is no link between abortion and breast cancer, unless you want to point out that both things happen to women. The only possible link, just as HRF said, is being born female. Nothing else.

Rubyeye .. that link you posted is nothing but right wing propaganda.

Bren

Rubyeye, you are free to go and publish your rubbish theory on Huffpost, assuming they will take you. In the meantime, I am curious to know whether you had breast cancer and whether that means you had an abortion. The faulty logic goes both ways.

I noticed her very first post on this forum and she has made no mention of her bc any where hmmm...

My intent was not to be hurtful to anyone, just show some facts.  The rate of breast cancer has gone up in a similar fashion to the rate of abortion.

There is a difference hormonally between an abortion and the medication given after abortion, and a miscarriage.  I do not think that this implicates miscarriage anywhere

Why not look through the various articles, different countries, different doctors etc before you just call it an "anti-choice" propaganda.  That was not my intent and it is hurtful

I do have other sources if any of you are interested in researching this further.  I think you will find it interesting.  Would you not want to know or have your daughter know that abortion could raise the risk of breast cancer if considering it?

Perhaps Dr. Weiss isn't going against the standard of care by not doing chemo.  If her Oncotype score was low, this IS the new standard of care, certainly if she did not have postitive nodes.  If chemo is not indicated, it can do more harm than good.

ruby-  You really need to stop posting your nonsense about abortions being a link with BC.  Please think about the audience you are preaching to.  Whether or not any of these women had abortions or miscarriages, what possible good can come of you lecturing to them now?  This is not the place for your agenda.

Rubyeye -- some of the studies listed on the link you provided do include miscarriages under the term "abortion" (the medical term for miscarriage is "spontaneous abortion").  The Sri Lanka study counted miscarriages as abortions.

I really don't know why you all have so much hostility.  Don't you want as much information as possible - for the young women in your lives you love ?

IF there is no medical evidence, then why did the women that sued their doctors for not informing them of the proved link between abortion and BC WIN in court ?  These were women without BC, but worried about it and the court cases took place in different countries.

Don't be so mean here,  we need to all come together and help each other.  We can have a difference of opinion but be open minded for the sake of others we could help

Edited - I am NOT lecturing anyone

Apple - I am not saying an opinion is rubbish. What is rubbish is information with no scientific proof that is disguised as fact. This misinformation is particulary cruel in light of the fact that this is a forum for women who have BC and iot comes literally as women here are posting that they had miscarriages. Doesn't that shock you? It is hurtful not only to women who had abortions but also to those who had miscarriages. And to those who had neither. The truth should never be held back simply because it is hurtful - but this is not the truth. It is heresay. We don't get to have an opinion on the causes of cancer - they are what they are or not. To suggest something --"abortion causes breast cancer"-- that is known to further a political agenda in the real world  is shocking to me. It really reaches a new low.

Rubyeye, I don't know what your intentions are, so I can only speculate and keep those thoughts to myself. I just ask you to be sensitive and bear in mind that some women just posted that they had miscarriages, and yet you continued.  

Thanks Athena.  I missed that rule change.

Athena1 - Can you please inform me exactly why your think these facts are political? and please answer directly what you read that said there was no scientific information?

s of 2006, eight medical organizations recognize that abortion raises a woman's risk for breast cancer, independently of the risk of delaying the birth of a first child (a secondary effect that all experts already acknowledge).  An additional medical organization, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, issued a statement in 2003 calling on doctors to inform patients about a "highly plausible" relationship between abortion and breast cancer.  General counsel for that medical group wrote an article for its journal warning doctors that three women (two Americans, one Australian) successfully sued their abortion providers for neglecting to disclose the risks of breast cancer and emotional harm, although none of the women had developed the disease.  Click here for more.

I just really cannot understand why you are all so hostile.  Unless you did not read the medical studies

Rubyeye:

I think you've clearly stated your point of view here.  Maybe you want to give it up now that you have since we are free to agree or disagree with you or this research.