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I think we have to be aggressive in educating in every possible way the dangers of OC use and breast cancer.  The secularists do a good job in fighting for funding in breast cancer research.  Too bad their ideology corrupts the science in looking for its cause.

I have been a participant in the Marin Women's Breast Cancer Study for several years.  One interesting result is that their data showed a decline in the rate of postmenopausal breast cancer due to a decrease in combined estrogen-progesterone use.  During Marin Cancer Institute's Annual Breast Breast Cancer Forum, I commented on this to the Principle Investigater and then asked if there " might also be a decrease in the incidence of premenopausal breast cancer if the use of OC's was decreased? "   She very smoothly said they would be looking at that in future studies but with " a link to alcohol use--i.e., a combination of OC/alcohol use and their effect on breast cancer " . 

When I brought up some of the studies linking OC use and abortion to breast cancer to a cancer surgeon, she blew me off saying that " all those studies are done by 'anti-choice' researchers " .  It is hard to penetrate their beliefs but we have to keep up the drumbeat.  Below is my email today to the head of the Community Epidemiology Program at the County of Marin Department of Health and Human Services, who is also the PI of the Marin Women's Breast Cancer Study.

Peggy Bartley 

Rochelle,I continue to research the link between oral contraceptive use and breast cancer.  In the October 2006 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings

there is an article that reports, using data from  39 case-controlled studies conducted after 1980, a definite link between oral contraceptive

use and premenopausal breast cancer.

http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196%2811%2960925-7/fulltextBecause breast cancer is such a horrific disease, and because the incidence of breast cancer in Marin is one of the highest in all California counties, I would like to see this link studied in future Marin Women's Breast Cancer Studies research.

Peggy Bartley, RN