Why not prevent breast cancer?
Carol Van Der Woude, an experienced nurse with whom I have worked in the past, explained a scientific concept on breast-cancer development (July 22 Fence Post). There is much more.
When I see demonstrators wearing pink ribbons to seek to "cure" breast cancer, I want to cry. As a family doctor, trained and certified (1969) as a surgeon to remove breast cancer, I know of international research proving how to prevent breast cancer.
If a baby is breast-fed 4 years; never receives the synthetic "birth-control" chemicals in the pill, the patch, most IUDs and the shot, and never has an abortion, her risk of developing breast cancer in her lifetime is statistically zero (not absolutely zero).
Sadly, in our society almost nobody is breast-fed for any significant time; 95 percent of l9-year-old girls are on the pill (or equivalent), or were on it earlier in life; and 35 percent of women have one or more abortions.
We are causing an epidemic of breast cancer.
I rejoice that there are many children growing in our medical practice, and women who have avoided the above dangerous practices, who will not develop breast cancer.
But we pray that the medical profession will end its denial of the truth. Indeed, people need to make their own choices in life, but they should be informed choices. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Dr. Peter S.L. Rosi
Prospect Heights
Dr. Mayer Eisenstein
Chicago