Letter to the Editor: No link
By Gloria Dialectic, Tulsa on Sep 17, 2013, at 2:21 AM Updated on 9/17/13 at 3:50 AM
Letters to the Editor
As an 84-year-old, 44-year survivor of metastatic breast cancer, I looked forward to the Cancer Survivor supplement, which was advertised in the past weeks.
When there is a festival on the west side of the river, the westside bike/jogging trail is closed.
Philip Creider criticized Planned Parenthood's breast cancer prevention program as hypocritical because he claims the organization also performs abortions ("Elaboration," Sept. 6).
He purports to know in detail all about Planned Parenthood's breast exam protocol, yet he seems oblivious that Planned Parenthood doesn't provide abortions at all in Oklahoma.
He claims there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, his authority being a questionable study published in the Indian Journal of Community Medicine. He neglected to clarify, however, that this study was not conducted in the Native American population of the U.S., but in India, and included only 188 women. If he had actually read the study, he would know abortion was not mentioned as a risk factor at all in the study results, and even the authors questioned the study's usefulness.
All leading U.S. cancer organizations reject the claim that abortion causes breast cancer. The American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Susan G. Komen Foundation and the CDC all have published statements that there is no connection.
No connection was found in any of the following studies, considered definitive by international cancer experts: a Denmark study of 1.5 million women; Harvard University study of 100,000 women, and a California Teachers Study of 100,000 women.
What extensive medical research background does Creider have that makes him such an authority on breast cancer and abortion? He is the assets manager for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa.
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Letters to the Editor
As an 84-year-old, 44-year survivor of metastatic breast cancer, I looked forward to the Cancer Survivor supplement, which was advertised in the past weeks.
When there is a festival on the west side of the river, the westside bike/jogging trail is closed.
