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Article: Abortion & Breast Cancer: National Cancer Institute's Disinformation Halted.(incorrect link between abortion and breast cancer)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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For over six years now, the campaign to inform the public about the abortion-breast cancer link (ABC link) has centered around an erroneous "fact sheet" circulated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and posted on its web site. That ended July 1, when the fact sheet was abruptly removed from the NCI web site.
Until recently, this fact sheet had been biased in the direction of suggesting that evidence of the ABC link was "inconsistent." The version that was posted between 1997 and 1999 even said that the experimental evidence of the link - - conducted in laboratory rats over 20 years ago - - was "not consistent with human data." The overall tone was repeatedly ...