Fw: It's Time for Women to Wake Up - Hormone Treatments Cause Cancer

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From: " ilena rose " <ilena@...>

Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 6:16 PM

Subject: It's Time for Women to Wake Up - Hormone Treatments Cause Cancer

> Sherrill Sellman (golight@...) wrote:

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>

> Hi Ilena,

> This is my response to the latest findings linking estrogen to ovarian

> cancer that will be included in the April issue of my HormoneWise Digest.

> Sherrill Sellman ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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> It's Time for Women to Wake Up - Hormone Treatments Cause Cancer

>

> The debate continues to rage over the ethics and safety of steroid

hormone

> treatment for women. The medical community staunchly justifies its use of

> the two main carcinogenic synthetic hormone drugs estrogen and progestins.

> However, the mounting evidence revealing their disastrous side-effects is

> irrefutable. A major scientific study recently sent shock waves threw

the

> news wires. On March 21 the Journal of the American Medical Association

> announced a study of over 211,000 women which showed that with ten years

> of estrogen use the risk of fatal ovarian cancer doubled. And this risk

> continued for the next 29 years!!! The news stories tried to keep an air

> of calm. Women were exhorted " not to panic " . The experts explained

that,

> " After all, ovarian cancer is still a rather rare form of cancer. " Then,

> less than a week later, on March 26th, a study by the National Cancer

> Institute had more shocking findings. The latest results, reported at

> the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research found

> that for women taking estrogen alone, the risk of ovarian cancer starts

> to rise after as little as four years of treatment. The data showed that

> women who used it for at least four years but less than 10 were at

> significantly increased risk! Various medical

> experts in the field were trotted out to comment and defend the widespread

> use of estrogen. The same age old catch 22 dilemma was discussed; each

> woman must make there difficult decision by weighing the risks and

> benefits. Why must it be breast cancer or crumbling bones? Do we really

> need to choose between a stroke or heart disease? How absurd to think

> in these terms. How immoral to make women believe that they have to make

> such a choice. Women do not have to pit the toxic effects of hormone

drugs

> against compromised health. ( If you haven't already read all of my

> research found in my Women's Wisdom Collection, found at

> http://www.ssellman.com'>http://www.ssellman.com'>http://www.ssellman.com'>http://www.ssellman.com then I strongly encourage you to do so. It

reveals

> all the myths about menopause, bone loss, heart disease, estrogen and much

> more.) The most important point about the use of estrogen and progestins

> was entirely missed. These are two drugs that have been acknowledged by

> the U.S. government to be known carcinogenic substances. The National

> Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has included them in their

list

> of known carcinogens. There has been ample evidence proving that they

> initiate and promote breast, uterine, cervical, lung, brain, skin and

colon

> cancers. Much less toxic drugs are regularly pulled off the market for

> far less serious health offences. Why is it then that estrogens and

> progestins not only continue to be heavily promoted but also

> enthusiastically championed by doctors? The wisdom of the female body

has

> endowed women to remain healthy and fit all the days of their lives.

> Menopause is not the price that must be paid for being a woman. Nature

has

> provided dozens of proven , effective and safe ways to balance hormones,

> regrow bone, and repair and maintain the heart without ever having to take

> one toxic drug to do so. Menopause is not a disease. It does not

require

> toxic, carcinogenic steroid hormone treatments. As I listened to the

media

> interviews between various camps of the medical world, not one " expert "

> ever questioned the most basic assumption Why do women need to use these

> toxic drugs in the first place? As long as " the medical experts " remain

> imprisoned within the traditional medical paradigm that extols the use of

> drugs and procedures that excel in suppressing symptoms. they will be

> forever blind to the many safe and effective natural options that are

> presently available to heal all of women's hormonal health challenges.

>

> For women to become truly hormonally balanced, they must embrace a more

> holistic approach to their health care. Only ignorance fuels fear. Only

> ignorance allows healthy women to be prescribed these cancer causing

> hormone treatments. The more informed women become about their bodies

and

> the many other choices available to them, the less they will be under the

> spell of medicine's mass marketing of menopause and its dangerous drug

> treatments.

>

>

>

> Sherrill Sellman is the author of the best selling book " Hormone Heresy :

> What Women Must Know About Their Hormones " , . She can be contacted at:

> http://www.ssellman.com'>http://www.ssellman.com'>http://www.ssellman.com'>http://www.ssellman.com and email: golight@.... To order her

> book and other educational products contact 1-877-215-1721 in the US. To

> subscribe to her free monthly HomroneWise Digest email infossellmancom (DOT)

>

> http://www.pioneerplanet.com:80/seven-days/wed/news/docs/031200.htm

> http://www.mayohealth.org:80/home?id=NE00254

> http://www.pioneerplanet.com:80/seven-days/tod/news/docs/032944.htm

> -- Warmest regards, Sherrill Sellman P.O. Box 690416 Tulsa, OK USA

> 74169-0416 Ph: 918-437-1058 Fx: 918-437-1258 Author of " Hormone Heresy "

> http://www.ssellman.com'>http://www.ssellman.com'>http://www.ssellman.com'>http://www.ssellman.com

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