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Breast cancer in relation to abortion: Results from the EPIC study

โœ Scribed by Joel Brind

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
French
Weight
47 KB
Volume
122
Category
Article
ISSN
0020-7136

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โœฆ Synopsis

In a recent report in this journal, Reeves et al. 1 concluded that their ''findings provide further unbiased evidence of the lack of an adverse effect of induced abortion on breast cancer risk.'' The boldness of their claim that their own work is ''unbiased'' is reminiscent of a 1982 paper 2 in which the authors concluded that their findings were ''entirely reassuring'' with regard to the safety of induced abortion vis-a`-vis breast cancer risk. Reeves article is in fact the 5th in a series of articles 2-5 (one being a meta-analysis 5 ) by a group from

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