Evidence linking abortion to breast cancer

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The following is a review of the [[peer-reviewed]] literature on the subject of [[abortion]] and breast [[cancer]]:

==List of studies showing that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer==
# [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8944853 Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, October 1996, 50, 481-96]

==List of studies showing no link between abortion and breast cancer==
# {{oa}} [http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v45/n3/abs/bjc198258a.html British Journal of Cancer 1982, 45, 327-31]
# [http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/117/1/35.abstract American Journal of Epidemiology 1983, 117, 35-45]
# [http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/126/5/831.abstract American Journal of Epidemiology 1987, 126, 831-41]
# [http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/127/5/981.abstract American Journal of Epidemiology 1988, 127, 981-9]
# {{oa}} [http://www.bmj.com/content/299/6713/1430 British Medical Journal 1989, 299, 1430-2]
# {{oa}} [http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v62/n1/abs/bjc1990242a.html British Journal of Cancer 1990, 62, 122-6]
# [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.2910480605/abstract International Journal of Cancer 1991, 48, 816-20]
# [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.2910530207/abstract International Journal of Cancer 1993, 53, 215-9]
# [http://www.springerlink.com/content/g007gl48x6828u4n/ Cancer Causes & Control 1995, 6, 75-82]
# {{oa}} [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291097-0215%2819960208%2965:4%3C401::AID-IJC1%3E3.0.CO;2-0/abstract International Journal of Cancer 1996, 65, 401-5]
# {{oa}} [http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199701093360201 New England Journal of Medicine 1997, 336, 81]
# [http://www.springerlink.com/content/q3wn2087j2n8ug63/ Cancer Causes & Control 1997, 8, 93-108]
# [http://www.springerlink.com/content/x422gjw031717740/ Cancer Causes & Control 1997, 8, 841-9]
# {{oa}} [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291097-0215%2819980413%2976:2%3C182::AID-IJC3%3E3.0.CO;2-T/abstract International Journal of Cancer 1998, 76, 182-8]
# [http://www.ejcancer.info/article/S0959-8049%2899%2900139-2/abstract European Journal of Cancer 1999, 35, 1361-7]
# {{oa}} [http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.89.8.1244 American Journal of Public Health 1999, 89, 1244-7]
# {{oa}} [http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v79/n11/abs/6690306a.html British Journal of Cancer 1999, 79, 1923-8]
# {{oa}} [http://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2000/03000/Induced_Abortion_in_Relation_to_Breast_Cancer.16.aspx Epidemiology 2000, 11, 177-80]
# [http://www.springerlink.com/content/pxu74411j7521646/ Cancer Causes & Control 2000, 11, 777-81]
# {{oa}} [http://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2000/01000/Induced_Abortion_and_Breast_Cancer_Risk.16.aspx Epidemiology 2000, 11, 76-80]
# {{oa}} [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.1263/abstract International Journal of Cancer 2001, 92, 899-905]
# {{oa}} [http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/12/3/209.full Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 2003, 12, 209-14]
# [http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2804%2915835-2/abstract Lancet 2004, 363, 1007–16]
# {{oa}} [http://jech.bmj.com/content/59/4/283.full Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 2005, 59, 283-7]

==List of studies showing that abortion decreases the risk of breast cancer==
#Beral V, Bull D, Doll R, Peto R, Reeves G (2004). "Breast cancer and abortion: collaborative reanalysis of data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 83?000 women with breast cancer from 16 countries". Lancet 363 (9414): 1007–16. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15835-2. PMID 15051280.
#Brewster DH, Stockton DL, Dobbie R, Bull D, Beral V (2005). "Risk of breast cancer after miscarriage or induced abortion: a Scottish record linkage case-control study". Journal of epidemiology and community health 59 (4): 283–7. doi:10.1136/jech.2004.026393. PMC 1733063. PMID 15767381.
#Harris BM, Eklund G, Meirik O, Rutqvist LE, Wiklund K (1989). "Risk of cancer of the breast after legal abortion during first trimester: a Swedish register study". BMJ 299 (6713): 1430–2. doi:10.1136/bmj.299.6713.1430. PMC 1838310. PMID 2514825.
#[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24326831 Tumori. 2013 Jul-Aug;99(4):452-7. doi: 10.1700/1361.15093. Abortion and breast cancer: case-control study. Ilic M, Vlajinac H, Marinkovic J, Sipetic-Grujicic S.]

==See also==
*[[Association of American Physicians and Surgeons]]:  One of the few [[quackery|"medical" associations]] that continues to promote the "ABC" link [[denialism|in spite of all the evidence to the contrary]].
*[[Circumventing Roe v. Wade‎]]
*[[Fœtus]]
*[[Pro-choice]]
*"[[Pro-life]]"

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