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By David Edwards
Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:08 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday suggested that Susan G. Komen for the Cure shouldn’t provide grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings because abortions cause breast cancer, a false claim that has been repeatedly debunked.
The candidate told Fox News host Chris Wallace that he didn’t agree with the Komen Foundation reversing itself last week and making Planned Parenthood eligible for future grants.
“I’ve taken the position as a presidential candidate and someone in Congress that Planned Parenthood funds and does abortions,” Santorum explained. “They’re a private organization they stand up and support what ever they want.”
“I don’t believe that breast cancer research is advanced by funding an organization where you’ve seen ties to cancer and abortion,” he added. “So, I don’t think it’s a particularly healthy way of contributing money to further cause of breast cancer, but that’s for a private organization like Susan B. Komen to make that decision.”
According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the several small flawed studies that suggested a link between abortion and breast cancer have been disproven.
“Since then, better-designed studies have been conducted,” the institute’s website said. “These newer studies examined large numbers of women, collected data before breast cancer was found, and gathered medical history information from medical records rather than simply from self-reports, thereby generating more reliable findings. The newer studies consistently showed no association between induced and spontaneous abortions and breast cancer risk.”
In 2002, the Bush administration temporarily altered NCI’s website to say that scientific evidence supported a possible link between abortion and breast cancer. After an outcry from the scientific community, NCI corrected its website with an accurate fact sheet.
A study released by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) in 2006 found that the Bush administration also used pregnancy resource centers — commonly known as “crisis pregnancy centers” — to falsely inform pregnant teens that the risk of breast cancer increased by 80 percent after an abortion.
“This tactic may be effective in frightening pregnant teenagers and women and discouraging abortion,” the study concluded (PDF). “But it denies the teenagers and women vital health information, prevents them from making an informed decision, and is not an accepted public health practice.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/05/santorum-suggests-abortion-causes-breast-cancer/
Watch this video from Fox’s Fox News Sunday, broadcast Feb. 5, 2012.
"What an Odd thing to say!!!"By David Edwards
Sunday, February 5, 2012 11:08 EST
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Women with advanced breast cancer who were treated with Roches Avastin were more likely to develop heart failure than other women, according to an analysis released on Tuesday that raised more concerns about the already troubled drug.
http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/reuters/Health/76227Women with advanced breast cancer who were treated with Roches Avastin were more... more
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Artistic depictions of ladies’ undergarments will be center stage at the upcoming “Show Us Your BRA!” gala and auction on Oct. 30 at Look Park in Northampton.
The event, started by Judith Fine, the owner of the Northampton intimate apparel store, Gazebo, benefits the Breast Form Fund, an organization started in 1994 to offer financial assistance to underserved women coping with breast cancer.
http://www.masslive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2010/09/show_us_your_bra_aids_cancer_s.htmlArtistic depictions of ladies’ undergarments will be center stage at the... more
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There is news Jennifer Saunders has been given the all clear, she was diagnosed with breast cancer 9 months ago and has been going through chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Reports say the treatment was privately known to friends and family.
"Saunders, who is married to comedian Adrian Edmondson, has not spoken publicly about her illness, telling only family and close friends including her comedy partner Dawn French."-TelegraphThere is news Jennifer Saunders has been given the all clear, she was diagnosed with... more
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"Keeping aBreast: Ways to PREVENT Breast Cancer"
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http://idinhealth.com/keepingabreast.html"Keeping aBreast: Ways to PREVENT Breast Cancer"
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Dear Ms. Brinker,
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and Susan G. Komen for the Cure are driving forces in funding breast cancer research. Each year they take in hundreds of millions of dollars from people who want to end the suffering of those who are fighting breast cancer.
How these donations are channeled, therefore, is of great concern to those those who have invested untold amounts of money and support in its work.It has come to my attention via an article by Joe Conason in Salon that Hadassah Lieberman – wife of Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) – is currently a compensated “Global Ambassador” for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. It is widely known, however, that not only has Senator Lieberman been an instrument of obstruction to the kind of health care reform advocated by Susan G. Komen for the Cure, but that Mrs. Lieberman is also a former lobbyist for APCO Associates, which represents the interests of the same major, private health insurance and pharmaceutical companies which Mr. Lieberman seeks to protect.
Mrs. Lieberman’s relationship with Susan G. Komen for the Cure is unethical and misleading. Important and often very personal donations made to Susan G. Komen for the Cure to benefit the sick and dying are essentially undermining their intended use. And as Hadassah travels the globe under the banner of Susan G. Komen for the cure, decrying the inadequacies of our health care system and the desperate need to reform it, her husband is at home to kill the reform efforts we so desperately need.
As a three time breast cancer survivor, I call on Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Komen Foundation to ask Hadassah Lieberman to step down as a “Global Ambassador” for the organization in light of the inherent conflict of interest her continued presence brings. It is counterproductive not only to Susan G. Komen for the cure’s positions and goals, but is also unfair to the millions of families that depend on its work.
Sincerely,
Jane HamsherDear Ms. Brinker,
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and Susan G. Komen... more
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This New York Times article gives the same scary media narrative repeated everywhere else in the past few days:
'Despite new recommendations that most women start breast screening at 50 rather than 40, many doctors said Tuesday that they were simply not ready to make such a drastic change.
"It's kind of hard to suggest that we should stop examining our patients and screening them," said Dr. Annekathryn Goodman, director of the fellowship program in gynecological oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital. "I would be cautious about changing a practice that seems to work."
The recommendations, issued Monday by a federal advisory panel, reversed widely promoted guidelines and were intended to reduce overtreatment. The panel said the benefits of screening women in their 40s - saving one life for every 1,904 women screened for 10 years - were outweighed by the potential for unnecessary tests and treatment, and the accompanying anxiety. Women considered at high risk should continue to have early screening, the panel said.'
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/health/18doctors.html?_r=1&hp
But where's the data about the risk from radiation?
Here's important (and missing) piece of the puzzle in the San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/11/18/MNLT1ALVJA.DTL
"Radiation causes 1 death for every 2,000 women screened annually starting at age 40, according to a study published in 2005 in the British Journal of Cancer. Another study shows that each mammogram increases the risk of breast cancer by 2 percent. Mammography also saves women's lives, so that's why it's a trade-off."
Here's some more info from Respectful Insolence, a medical research blog:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/11/really_rethinking_breast_cancer_screenin.php
Got that? Statistically, some women have approximately as much chance of GETTING breast cancer from a mammogram as they have of it saving their lives. That's why it's considered a policy wash.
Yes, you might be one of those rare women saved by early detection. But you might also be someone who DEVELOPS breast cancer from the yearly radiation exposure.
By the way, the policy change recommendation does NOT apply to women with symptoms. It's for screening mammograms only, not the diagnostic kind.This New York Times article gives the same scary media narrative repeated everywhere... more
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Two-time Grammy winner Melissa Etheridge is closing one chapter of her life and beginning another -- stronger, better and more passionate about life than ever before. Etheridge waged a tough battle against breast cancer and won. And she's just released a greatest hits CD, "The Road Less Traveled."Two-time Grammy winner Melissa Etheridge is closing one chapter of her life and... more
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Men who carry the BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 Gene have a risk of developing breast cancer...though the chance is still 1% or less. Men who carry the BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 Gene have a risk of developing breast... more
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All you have to do is click and you are helping to give free mammograms!
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This unfortunately is something that effects so many people- let's do what we can to help out in the fight for life.This unfortunately is something that effects so many people- let's do what we can... more
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Support the fight against Breast Cancer! It really is an amazing cause!
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This will tell you everything you could ever want to know!!!
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This is amazing because the answers you get are ones that have been recorded on video by the doctors themselves! Very helpful and informative! Sometimes women are too afraid to ask questions in person, so now you can do it in the comfort of your own home!This is amazing because the answers you get are ones that have been recorded on video... more
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