Article on breast cancer risk and induced abortion concerns readers.

Abstract:

:Inappropriate and inaccurate counseling with regard to abortion and the risk of breast cancer may result if readers accept without critical review Lucille Canty's biased article on the association between induced abortion and breast cancer printed in Oncology Nursing Forum (ONF). The potential resulting psychological harm could be considerable. The current debate over whether women have increased risk of developing breast cancer after an induced abortion continues, and the findings produced thus far have been inconclusive. Many scientists, including researchers at the National Cancer Institute, do not agree that any connection exists between induced abortion and breast cancer. Considering the complexity of assessing risk, a more thorough discussion of methodologic issues when assessing risk would have better served ONF readers. Furthermore, a less biased approach would have presented each of the studies more objectively. Finally, the conclusions which Canty drew in her abstract and article did not reflect the relative risks and conclusions drawn in the current literature she cited on the subject in her text.

journal_name

Oncol Nurs Forum

journal_title

Oncology nursing forum

authors

Hirshfield-Bartek J,Mayer DK

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-11-01 00:00:00

pages

1671-2

issue

10

eissn

0190-535X

issn

1538-0688

journal_volume

24

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