Entrevisa de Joel Brind, Ph.D.,em exclusivo, para o Infovitae, realizada pela Dra. Maria João Leitão, médica pediatra. Dr. Joel Brind is a biochemist who has specialezed in reproductive steroid hormones and their links to human diseases since 1972. He earned his Ph.D. in basic medical science from New York University in 1981. Since coming across to the link between abortion and breast cancer in 1992, Dr. Brind has devoted most of his research effort to studying and promoting awareness of what has come to be known as the 'ABC link'. In 1996, along with colleagues from the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, Dr. Brind published a "comprehensive review and meta-analysis" on the ABC link in the British Medical Association's epidemiology journal. In 1999, along with three physician colleagues, Dr. Brind founded the nonprofit Breast Cancer Prevention Institute in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 2003, he was appointed to a trhee-year term on the advisory committe of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the early detection and control of breast and cervical cancer. His most recent papaer, which critically reviews ABC link research published over the last decade, appears in the winter 2005 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
Strange, it is difficult to know what is true. Myself I was told before the abortion what are going to be the risks and was given the answer by the ginecologies that it is very safe that a small persent of woemen experience complications. Brest canser was never mantioned, even I was 14 weeks into pregnancy. If a medical professional said this to me, I would reconsider my decision.
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