Did You Know A CANCER SOCIETY is WITHHOLDING LINK to BIRTH CONTROL PILLS?

[PLAL]

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OTTAWA, March 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Maurice Vellacott, MP for Saskatoon-Wanuskewin, upbraided the Canadian Cancer Society for withholding information about the link between hormonal contraception and cancer. Vellacott said, “If the Canadian Cancer Society is not telling Canadians the truth about the birth control pill’s link to breast cancer, what else is the Canadian Cancer Society withholding?”

In 2003, Oxford University researchers found a link between the pill and cervical cancer. Researchers from Cancer Research UK’s epidemiology unit in Oxford reviewed 28 studies and found that the longer a woman took the pill, the greater her risk of developing cervical cancer. They found a 10% increased risk for women taking the pill for 5 years or less, 60% for 5 to 9 years’ use, and 100% greater risk (i.e. double the risk of a non-pill-using woman) if they had taken it for at least 10 years.

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Polycarp: Contraception/Cancer Relationship
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Listen to Karen Malec Explain the Link Between Contraception/Abortion & Cancer
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[Eileen_T]

Don’t you realise that women’s health is not the issue? It is all about a woman’s rights and politics.

LOL, I know you do know that. What really bugs me is that they have known and suppressed this for decades.

Dr Ellen Grant, a researcher who took part in the first pill trials in London in 1961, said in her 1985 book *‘The Bitter Pill’:*The early testing was done on animals and there were a wide variety of reactions. There were changes in their carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism, and alterations in their salt and water balance. Male or female hormone effects could be blocked or stimulated and the actions of several brain hormones were blocked.

Given during pregnancy, animals sometimes produced offspring with abnormalities.

Although Dr Grant and her colleague wrote to the British Medical Journal (BMJ) declaring that …the effect in women is not necessarily the same as the effect in animals, she is no longer of the same opinion. She states in her book that the animal tests proved to be excellent predictors of the effects in humans, especially their ability to cause cancer.

The discovery that giving animals oestrogen caused breast cancer by stimulating rapid cell growth occurred in 1932.Despite that most oral contraceptives are a mixture of oestrogen and progesterone. When progesterone is given alone it causes heavy and irregular bleeding.

You can read more about the dangers of OCs on my website life.org.nz/abortionkeyissuescontraceptives.htm

 

[pira114]

I didn’t think that was news. I’ve known about those studies for some time. Thought it was common knowledge, and I would think that if Americans have access to this information, so would canadians.

 

[Holly3278]

I didn’t know this but its not suprising. I mean, its Canada and Canada is known for being liberal. And liberals are known for being liars.