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Study finds no link between abortion, cancer
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 24, 2007 09:01pm |
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| News Date | Monday, April 23, 2007 10:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Harvard study released Monday supports earlier findings by a panel of experts that having an abortion doesn’t increase a woman’s risk of getting breast cancer.
However, this latest analysis isn’t likely to convince all those opposed to abortion. Three states — Texas, Minnesota and Mississippi — require doctors to warn women seeking abortions of the purported link to breast cancer “when medically accurate,” letting doctors make that determination based on current scientific evidence.
In 2003, a group of scientists convened by the National Cancer Institute concluded abortion did not raise the risk of breast cancer.
Studies that found a link between abortion and breast cancer have relied on reports from women with cancer and healthy women about whether they’d had abortions in the past. The women with cancer may have been more likely than healthy women to report abortions as they searched for reasons why they got sick, Michels said. |
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