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Pill alert 'alarmist' (Carcinogenic contraceptive)
The Australian ^
| August 01, 2005
| David King
Posted on 07/31/2005 4:14:26 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
AUSTRALIAN medical experts have urged women not to abandon oral contraception or hormone replacement therapy despite a World Health Organisation decision to classify them as cancer causing.
The WHO's leading cancer research body - the International Agency for Research on Cancer - has changed its classification for combined oestrogen-progestogen oral contraceptives and combined oestrogen-progestogen HRT drugs from "possibly carcinogenic to humans" to "carcinogenic to humans".
The decision puts the widely used compounds in the same category as the cancer-causing agents asbestos and tobacco...
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cancer; carcinogens; contraceptive; contraceptives; health; medicine; oral; pill; who; worldhealthorg
They'll tear schools and public buildings apart to get asbestos out of the building materials. They'll mobilize govenment at every level to repress tobacco smoking. But when it turns out that "The Pill" is carcinogenic -- oh my, oh dear, wouldn't want to be an alarmist; please, girls, don't worry your pretty little heads about this...
To: Coleus; markomalley; churchillbuff; bitt; little jeremiah
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posted on
07/31/2005 4:15:32 PM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(As always, striving for accuracy.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Uh oh, here come the trial lawyers.
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posted on
07/31/2005 4:25:39 PM PDT
by
crispy78
(Congressional Motto: Republicans by day, Democrats by night.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
I've been reading off and on for the last couple of years about the pill-cancer connection, and this simply adds to the list. I thought the pill was given a clean bill of health here in the good old USA.
The pill has been foisted off on millions of third-world women by the Planned Parenthood-U.N. eugenics crowd. Man, that's a cancer epidemic in the making, and one with no medical infrastructure to combat it.
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posted on
07/31/2005 4:42:47 PM PDT
by
TheGeezer
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