Mr. Barry Levine
Executive Editor, National Enquirer,
E-mail: Message Box,
April 4, 2010, Eastern
Dear Mr. Levine:
Exactly 31 years ago, on March 27, 1979, the National Enquirer announced on its first page a report, entitled: “HIGH RISK OF BREAST CANCER LINKED TO COMMON FORM OF BIRTH CONTROL,” and on the third page the newspaper a short report was published under the title,
“FIVE TIMES GREATER RISK OF BREAST CANCER FROM COMMON FORM OF BIRTH CONTROL.”
The report was by Chuck Michelini, who inquired for more complete information about the aforementioned study at the Dept. of Gynecology & Obstetrics and the Dept. of Research Medicine of the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA. Some authorities seemed satisfied that the “intrusion” from the reporter has been dispelled.
The hypothesis-testing study corroborated the evidence of a significant association between the use of condoms and the development of breast cancer in American married women. In addition, the study defined a potential of a primary (non-chemical) prevention of breast cancer. The research study was initiated at, endorsed by and carried out jointly at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, at Chapel Hill, NC, and the University of Pennsylvania, in the mid-1970, eight years before the AIDS saga ever emerged. The evidence of an etiologic relationship between the condom use and breast cancer was fully confirmed by the explicit prediction (warning) of an imminent natural experiment of epidemic breast cancer upsurge after the indiscriminate and misconceived condom-use campaigns for contraceptive purposes..
Within the intervening three decades, breast cancer erupted in an unprecedented and perplexing epidemic, afflicting primarily American and other women of the developed Western world. The condomization of female sexuality proved to exert carcinogenic and lethal devastations upon women’s health and lives, intimacy with their spouses, shattered marriages and families. Mass condomization has been defined as the main and perhaps singular root cause of the current, unabated and excess breast cancer epidemic in the country and beyond.. Yet, the study/book was effectively suppressed and seemingly forgotten, the breast cancer epidemic has remained non-existent and never been officially recognized as such, the breast cancer research took irrelevant for prevention directions ever since, and tragedies struck at least six to eight million American women (and many more worldwide), out of whom at least one quarter perished. Certain regions in the country have been labeled as “breast cancer capitals of the world.”
By thanking you for the initial, remote attention to my breast cancer study, it is my hope that your continuing interest in human consequences of the on-going political and public health crisis might facilitate a better awareness, resolve and will for primary (non-chemical, non-profit) prevention and termination of the breast cancer epidemic in the country and beyond.
Respectfully yours,
Arne N. Gjorgov, M.D., Ph.D. (UNC-SPH, Epidemiology, Chapel Hill, NC)
Author of “Barrier Contraception and Breast Cancer,” 1980: x+164.
One Response to “Barry Levine: National Enquirer”
Mr. Barry Levine
Executive Editor, National Enquirer,
E-mail: Message Box,
April 4, 2010, Eastern
Dear Mr. Levine:
Exactly 31 years ago, on March 27, 1979, the National Enquirer announced on its first page a report, entitled: “HIGH RISK OF BREAST CANCER LINKED TO COMMON FORM OF BIRTH CONTROL,” and on the third page the newspaper a short report was published under the title,
“FIVE TIMES GREATER RISK OF BREAST CANCER FROM COMMON FORM OF BIRTH CONTROL.”
The report was by Chuck Michelini, who inquired for more complete information about the aforementioned study at the Dept. of Gynecology & Obstetrics and the Dept. of Research Medicine of the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA. Some authorities seemed satisfied that the “intrusion” from the reporter has been dispelled.
The hypothesis-testing study corroborated the evidence of a significant association between the use of condoms and the development of breast cancer in American married women. In addition, the study defined a potential of a primary (non-chemical) prevention of breast cancer. The research study was initiated at, endorsed by and carried out jointly at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, at Chapel Hill, NC, and the University of Pennsylvania, in the mid-1970, eight years before the AIDS saga ever emerged. The evidence of an etiologic relationship between the condom use and breast cancer was fully confirmed by the explicit prediction (warning) of an imminent natural experiment of epidemic breast cancer upsurge after the indiscriminate and misconceived condom-use campaigns for contraceptive purposes..
Within the intervening three decades, breast cancer erupted in an unprecedented and perplexing epidemic, afflicting primarily American and other women of the developed Western world. The condomization of female sexuality proved to exert carcinogenic and lethal devastations upon women’s health and lives, intimacy with their spouses, shattered marriages and families. Mass condomization has been defined as the main and perhaps singular root cause of the current, unabated and excess breast cancer epidemic in the country and beyond.. Yet, the study/book was effectively suppressed and seemingly forgotten, the breast cancer epidemic has remained non-existent and never been officially recognized as such, the breast cancer research took irrelevant for prevention directions ever since, and tragedies struck at least six to eight million American women (and many more worldwide), out of whom at least one quarter perished. Certain regions in the country have been labeled as “breast cancer capitals of the world.”
By thanking you for the initial, remote attention to my breast cancer study, it is my hope that your continuing interest in human consequences of the on-going political and public health crisis might facilitate a better awareness, resolve and will for primary (non-chemical, non-profit) prevention and termination of the breast cancer epidemic in the country and beyond.
Respectfully yours,
Arne N. Gjorgov, M.D., Ph.D. (UNC-SPH, Epidemiology, Chapel Hill, NC)
Author of “Barrier Contraception and Breast Cancer,” 1980: x+164.
E-mail: arne.gjorgov@yahoo.com
By Arne N. Gjorgov, MD, PhD on Apr 4, 2010