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 whic
Reply to “Breast cancer in relation to abortion: Results from the EPIC study”
✍ Scribed by Gillian Reeves
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 36 KB
- Volume
- 122
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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