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Experts Uncertain About Abortion, Breast Cancer Link
Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 21st, 1996
Now a similar claim appears in a medical study that received widespread criticism when it was released October 11, 1996.
The study's authors from Pennsylvania State University's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Baruch College in New York City said that a woman who has an abortion is 30 percent more likely to develop breast cancer later in life. They attribute some 5,000 cases of breast cancer each year to...
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