MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 4 /Christian Newswire/ -- It must be Christmas in October for the breast cancer charity industry, notes Joel Brind, Professor of Biology and Endocrinology and Deputy Chair for Biology and Environmental Sciences at Baruch College, City University of New York. It is that time of year when breast cancer profiteers and misinformed writers for health publications spread myths about breast cancer to an unsuspecting public.
The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer has published an open letter to editors at Prevention asking them to make corrections in its story, "Twelve myths to ignore about breast cancer," for the sake of protecting women's lives. [1] The Coalition is also publishing a real list of breast cancer myths spread by the cancer charity industry. They are:
Myth #1: Scientists still have no idea what causes breast cancer.
Myth #2: There Is no cure for breast cancer.
Myth #3: Breast cancer is not preventable.
Myth #4: Most women diagnosed with breast cancer have no known risk factors for the disease.
Myth #5: Induced abortion does not increase breast cancer risk.
Myth #6: There is little or no risk associated with taking oral contraceptives (the pill).
The Coalition's open letter debunks these myths.
"Disease prevention is far better than being cured of that disease," said Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, "especially when the cure entails the loss of a woman's breasts, chemotherapy and radiation. If the cancer charity industry had been honest about the risks of the pill, combined hormone replacement therapy and induced abortion when the evidence became available in the 1980s, many thousands of American lives could have been saved. It's crime impacting far more people than the recently reported atrocity involving U.S. government doctors who deliberately infected some Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases in the 1940s for the sake of science."
The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.
References available online at: www.abortionbreastcancer.com/press_releases/101004_1/index.htm
