Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news shows quickly picked up the story, but most treated it gingerly, all too aware of its explosive potential. Many reporters emphasized the uncertainties inherent in the abortion study -- and in most other scientific research. The paper asserted that having an abortion raised a woman's risk of contracting breast cancer 50% on average. But, as an editorial in the NCI Journal points out, that is just about the smallest risk such a study can detect. (By contrast, a heavy smoker faces a 3000% jump in the odds of developing lung cancer.) Nonetheless, antiabortion groups suspected that the media...
...Daling, who is pro-choice, buried one of the most provocative findings in the fine print of a table. She and her colleagues reported that the risk of developing breast cancer was greater than average for women who had an abortion after the eighth week of pregnancy and were under the age of 18 at the time. But the scientists tucked away the fact that for these women, the risk of getting breast cancer before age 45 went up 800%. "We didn't say that in our report because we didn't want to alarm anyone before more research...
...Daling says, a Virginia lawyer working for a right-to-life association dogged the scientist for days, trying to get more details about her work and asking that she serve as a spokesperson for his organization. "I said to him, 'I don't think you care one bit about breast cancer and women's health. You just want to help your cause,"' Daling recalls...
...study of 1,800 people found that having an abortion may increase a woman's risk of eventually developing breast cancer by 50%. The greatest increase occurred in women who waited until after the eighth week to terminate their pregnancy. By contrast, smokers run a 3,000% increase in their risk of developing lung cancer compared with nonsmokers...
SCIENCE: Is Breast Cancer Linked to Abortion...