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Re: Breast Cancer Question

From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Fri, 23 May 2003 19:41:32 -0400 (EDT)

Your question is a good one, and has not, to my knowledge, been answered by specific studies. It is known that breast cancer risk can be increased by prolonged exposure to estrogens, but even this is difficult to tease out and many variables come into play when evaluating the effects of estrogens on development of breast cancer. The CNN story is a good example of reporting controversial topics to increase viewership. The relationship between breast cancer and abortion is sketchy and there is minimal evidence of a minimally increased risk. Watch something else. Hannah Brooks, MD, FACS

> I just saw a segment on CNN, that has me pretty confused. In the
> segment
> they were discussing a correlation between abortions and Breast Cancer.
> The person trying to support this theroy did not come across with
> convincing
> evidence. CNN presented information that clearly indicated this
> correlation
> is very very very questionable. However, one fact did come out that has
> me
> concerned. The person claiming the link between Breast Cancer and
> Abortions
> based that link on the assumption that an interrupted pregnancy leaves a
> women
> in a state of hormonal imbalance, specificly in a state of Estrogen
> domance.
> This caught my attention because I have pcos and have had endometrial
> hyperplasia due to Estrogen dominance. I have been treated and do take
> agystin now. None of my doctors have ever said that women at PCOS are
> at
> higher risk for breast cancer. I have also never seen any thing about
> this
> in any liteature I have read on PCOS. So my question is Is a person
> with
> PCOS at great risk of breast cancer? OR should I watch less CNN?
>
> Thanks
> mj
>

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