[Leslie Carol Botha: It took 30 years before funds could be raised for an independent study on HRT - and now hundred's of post-menopausal women are developing breast cancer and filing lawsuits?  Does this sound like good medicine to you?]

Ex-Principal Wins $4 Million Verdict Against Drug Maker

Hundreds of women have filed suits claiming menopausal treatment causes breast cancer

Connecticut Law Tribune
April 30, 2012
By CHRISTIAN NOLAN

Margaret B. Fraser and Joseph T. Fraser v. Wyeth Inc. and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc.: A retired elementary school principal and her husband recovered $4 million after a federal jury in Connecticut decided that the woman developed breast cancer as a result of taking a menopause drug.

According to the lead plaintiffs lawyer, this was the first of several expected trials in Connecticut focusing on the drug Prempro. A trial is expected to start in U.S. District Court in Connecticut in May for the estate of a woman who died from breast cancer after taking the drug.

“I’ve got about 100 individual cases and jointly prosecuted matters” nationwide, said Gregory J. Bubalo, of Bubalo Rotman in Louisville, Ky.

Bubalo said Prempro, manufactured by Wyeth Inc., is a combination of two hormones, estrogen and progestin, and is used in the treatment of menopausal symptoms. The drug is one of several used in what’s called hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, whose purpose is to replace the female hormones the body no longer produces because of menopause. Prempro was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1994 and has remained on the market ever since.

The drug, which is still on the market, was largely prescribed from 1992 to 2002, said Bubalo, until a study by the Women’s Health Initiative highlighted its link to cancer. The label for the drug indicated that it could be prescribed for menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, vaginal atrophy and the prevention of osteoporosis.

“Epidemiologists basically have concluded that Hormone Replacement Therapy was responsible for up to 200,000 excess breast cancers in the decade from 1992 to 2002, when HRT was among the best-selling drugs in America,” said Bubalo. He said the American Cancer Society then wrote in its Breast Cancer Facts & Figures “that hormone positive breast cancer rates dropped for postmenopausal women after many women stopped using HRT in 2002.”

Nevertheless, defense lawyers for the Pfizer-owned drug company have argued that, despite the studies, there’s no way to directly connect any individual woman’s breast cancer to the drug. The lawyers also argue that the pharmaceutical company adequately warned users on the label of Prempro of the risk it could cause breast cancer.

Bubalo’s first Connecticut client to win a verdict against Wyeth is Margaret “Maggie” Fraser, 65, of Lakeville.

The attorney said Fraser began taking Prempro in the mid-1990s, when she was about 50 years old. Her gynecologist prescribed it after Fraser began experiencing hot flashes. Fraser, according to court documents, testified that she continued taking the drug because “it was working… and because my doctor felt it was safe.” Advertisements for the drug at that time also “enhanced” her decision to keep taking it.

Fraser continued taking Prempro until Sept. 11, 2001, when a mammogram revealed abnormal results. A biopsy was performed and in October 2001 she was diagnosed with cancer. The next month, a lumpectomy was performed on Fraser’s left breast. After that came six months of chemotherapy and then radiation therapy. She took cancer medications for five years after the radiation therapy.

Treatments killed the skin on her breast and she’s had three different breast reconstruction surgeries over a five- or six-year period, said Bubalo.

“She still has scars,” the plaintiffs attorney said. “She fortunately is cancer-free right now. If she ever has a recurrence, she’ll likely die. So she’ll be seeing her cancer doctor for the rest of her life.”

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Remember the 1970 Senate testimony on the first birth control pills when a male ‘medical expert’ (women were not allowed to testify at this hearing either) said ‘estrogen is to cancer like fertilizer is to wheat.’ 40 years later and women are still at risk for iatrogenic disease from static based hormone therapy.

HRT With Estrogen Added Raises Breast Cancer Risk

Medical News Today
16 Mar 2012 – 9:00 PDT

According to a study published March 15 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, thoughts about how estrogen alone or estrogen in addition to progestin influence the risk of developing breast cancer has considerably changed in the past 10 years due to results from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) randomized placebo-controlled hormone therapy trials, and from large prospective cohort studies.

At present, concerns are still being raised regarding hormone therapy-induce breast cancer risk, even though the therapy is used for menopausal symptoms by millions of women. Furthermore, researchers are still not clear on the effects of estrogen in addition to progestin vs estrogen alone on breast cancer.

Rowan T. Chlebowski, M.D., Ph.D., of the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Garnet Anderson, Ph.D., at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, examined data from 2 randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials carried out in the WHI, in order to examine the effects of estrogen in addition progestin vs estrogen alone on the risk of developing breast cancer.

The first study assessed estrogen alone in post-menopausal women with prior hysterectomy, and the second study assessed estrogen plus progestin in post-menopausal women who had not undergone hysterectomy.

The researchers found that the risk of developing breast cancer was statistically considerably increased by using estrogen in addition to progestin, while the risk was statistically significantly decreased in post-menopausal women with previous hysterectomy who took estrogen alone.

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Read the complete article and related information at Breast Cancer Risk Increases with Estrogen HRT

Join Leslie Carol Botha on Monday, March 19 on KRFC FM when she interviews T.S. Wiley, on her book, ‘Sex Lies and Menopause: The Shocking Truth about Hormone Replacement Therapy” and her work and research on Rhythmic Cyclic BHRT and the development of the Wiley Protocol using natural cyclic hormones for menopause. Wiley has made numerous national radio and television appearances and since 2000 continues to present and lecture on Multi-Phasic, Rhythmic Cyclic BHRT and Hibernation and Metabolic States. Wiley’s Seminar’s on the Natural History of Endocrinology are attended by physicians from all over the world and they are awarded CME credits for her work.

T.S. Wiley is the author of “Sex, Lies & Menopause,” Harper Collins, 2003, the hypothesis of which explains why postponing marriage and motherhood, women have accelerated the aging process and put themselves in the bull’s eye for breast cancer. The book also examines the introduction of the birth control pill in the early 1960’s and the impact of not breast-feeding our young. In her previous book, “Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar and Survival, ” Pocket Books, Simon and Schuster, 2000, Wiley succinctly and logically argues that electricity and the light bulb put us out of sync with nature as the ultimate “endocrine disruptors”.

People spent summers, before electric lights, sleeping less and eating heavily in preparation for winter because the light triggered the hunger for carbohydrates. Now, light is available 24 hours a day. Heating and air-conditioning climate control our hormonal responses to consume carbohydrates now available year round. This is the scenario for obesity, Type II diabetes, and depression.

In Wiley’s opinion, sleep is the best medicine. T.S. Wiley has also published peer-reviewed scientific papers in molecular oncology and endocrinology, as well as lecturing globally and teaching physicians Environmental Endocrinology in Planetarium settings around the world. Her newest work in process is “Manthropology”, exploring how medicine and modern life are killing men. Find out more about the study of bio-identical, bio-mimetic HRT on her website, www.thewileyprotocol.com

Read the complete article and related information at ‘Sex, Lies & Menopause’ Author T.S. Wiley on Holy Hormones Honey!

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PRLog: http://www.prlog.org/11788021-sanevax-inc-writes-open-letter-to-kathleen-sebelius-secretary-of-health-rescind-gardasil-approval.html
SANE Vax Inc. http://sanevax.org/sanevax-writes-open-letter-to-kathleen-sebelius-secretary-of-health-rescind-approval-of-gardasil-due-to-lack-of-efficacy-during-post-licensure-monitoring/

Read the complete article and related information at Press Release: SaneVax Inc Writes Open Letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services: Rescind Gardasil Approval

Well, talk about the pot calling the kettle black…. LB

Natural News

Sunday, January 29, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

Many consumer and industrial products contain perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), which are highly-persistent organofluorine compounds that make certain materials oil, water, and stain resistant. But according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, PFCs in non-stick cookware, clothing, furniture, and food packaging appear to be responsible for causing vaccines to fail as well, as they can reduce antibody concentrations to levels below what is considered effective for warding off disease.

Philippe Grandjean, MD, DMSc, from the Harvard School of Public Health and his colleagues evaluated 656 children born at the National Hospital in the Faroe Islands, a country located in the Norwegian Sea, between 1999 and 2001. This study location was considered ideal because people living in the region consume lots of fish, which is closely associated with high intake of PFCs.

The team measured blood serum levels of antibodies for tetanus and diphtheria toxoids in the children at ages five and seven, and compared these levels to those of various PFCs. Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) were found to be in the highest concentrations compared to all other PFCs, and were directly associated with lowered antibody counts.

A two-fold increase in PFOS exposure among five-year-old children, for instance, was associated with a 39 percent reduction in anti-diphtheria antibody concentration. And in seven-year-old children, a two-fold increase in PFOA exposure was associated with a 36 percent and 25 percent reduction, respectively, for tetanus and diphtheria antibodies.

“The perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) are highly persistent and cause contamination of drinking water, food, and food chains,” wrote the authors. “If the associations are causal, the clinical importance of our findings is therefore that PFC exposure may increase a child’s risk for not being protected against diphtheria and tetanus, despite a full schedule of vaccinations.”

PFCs are everywhere, as evidenced by a 2004 US government study which found the chemicals in a shocking 98 percent of blood samples taken from a large pool of Americans. So if the chemicals really do inactivate vaccine potential by disabling antibodies, then vaccines may have been shown once again to be medically useless for most Americans.

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Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Deborah Clegg

DALLAS – Oct.  20, 2011 – A recent UT Southwestern Medical Center study found that estrogen regulates energy expenditure, appetite and body weight, while insufficient estrogen receptors in specific parts of the brain may lead to obesity.

“Estrogen has a profound effect on metabolism,” said Dr. Deborah Clegg, associate professor of internal medicine and senior author of the study published Oct. 5 in Cell Metabolism. “We hadn’t previously thought of sex hormones as being critical regulators of food intake and body weight.”

The mouse study is the first to show that estrogen, acting through two hypothalamic neural centers in the brain, keeps female body weight in check by regulating hunger and energy expenditure. Female mice lacking estrogen receptor alpha – a molecule that sends estrogen signals to neurons – in those parts of the brain became obese and developed related diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease.

Similar results were not seen in male mice, although researchers suspect other unknown estrogen receptor sites in the brain play a similar role in regulating metabolism for males as well.

Estrogen receptors are located throughout the body, but researchers found two specific populations of estrogen receptors that appear to regulate energy balance for female mice.

The findings are potentially important for millions of postmenopausal women, many of whom have decided against hormonal replacement therapy. The study could lead to new hormonal replacement therapies in which estrogen is delivered to specific parts of the brain that regulate body weight, thereby avoiding the risks associated with full-body estrogen delivery, such as breast cancer and stroke.

Doctors stopped routinely recommending long-term estrogen therapy for menopausal women in 2002 when a Women’s Health Initiative study showed the hormone also led to increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

“The role of estrogen in postmenopausal women continues to remain uncertain,” Dr. Clegg said. “Current research is focused on the timing and the type of estrogen supplementation that would be most beneficial to women. Our findings further support a role for estrogens in regulating body weight and energy expenditure, suggesting a benefit of estrogen supplementation in postmenopausal women.”

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The Independent

Thousands of women at risk from ‘silent Thalidomide’

A drug intended to prevent miscarriage is blamed for causing cancer in the daughters – and possibly even granddaughters – of women who took it decades ago.

By Sarah Morrison and Jaymi McCann

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Does this story sound familiar?  It is playing out now and under the guise of the HPV Vaccines. LB

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Pap 101

by Elizabeth Smith, M.D.

Natural Hormone Treatment of Cervical Dysplasia

Previously, scientists had thought that cervical cancer was linked to sexual promiscuity and/or certain varieties of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Now, researchers believe that birth control pills are causing cervical cancer. Cervical dysplasia, is abnormal cells found on the cervix. If the cervical dysplasia is not caused by infection or physically traumatic sex, cervical dysplasia is precancerous (cervical dysplasia leads to cervical cancer). Cervical cancer is now believed to be caused by excess synthetic estrogen in the form of birth control pills. However, of the 85,000 chemicals in use in the United States, some of these chemicals are hormonally active and happen to be estrogenic. These synthetic chemicals in every day life mimic estrogen (xenoestrogens) and also may cause cervical dysplasia.

John Lee, MD, the guru of Natural Progesterone has successfully reversed cervical dysplasia back to normal by giving Natural Progesterone and folic acid (a type of B vitamin). Birth Control Pills cause a folic acid deficiency. He used this same method to reverse cervical dysplasia in his daughter in three cycles.

In the study, commissioned by the World Health Organization, researchers combined the data from 28 studies, involving 12,500 women with cervical cancer from a number of countries including the United Kingdom and United States. Dr. Amy Berrington from the Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, said the research showed that the longer women used the pill the greater their risk of developing cervical cancer, and the effect remained even when other risk factors for the disease such as infection with the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) were taken into account. This runs contrary to the theory that the increased risk of cervical cancer among women taking contraceptives was likely due to exposure to the virus, rather than the pill itself.

They found that women who used the pill for five years or less had a 10 per cent increased risk of cervical cancer when compared with women who had never taken it. This increased risk rose to 60 per cent with five to nine years of use and doubled with 10 years of use or over. Read about it here.

Ranchers also give synthetic estrogen to cattle, and farmers give synthetic estrogen to chicken with the full knowledge that the estrogen will cause the animal to grow and mature faster. Now, Time magazine has cited the landmark study of 17,000 girls aged 8. 15% of these girls are going through early puberty and sprouting breast buds and pubic hair. The Time magazine cover story, October 30, 2000, cites that some chemicals mimic estrogen (xenoestrogen) and blames these chemicals for the early growth spurt of girls and early puberty. The Time magazine article believes that everyday chemicals that we use in our homes act like estrogen. These estrogenic chemicals (xenoestrogens) are to blamed for early sexual maturity in girls in the United States.

Could these same chemicals that act like estrogen (xenoestrogens) be also causing cervical cancer? Many researchers now believe that these xenoestrogens that are causing early sexual maturity in girls. Xenoestrogens are also believed to be causing cervical dysplasia and cervical cancer.

Mainstream medicine readily acknowledges that excess estrogen causes endometrial (uterine) cancer and most breast cancers. The incidence of breast cancer in the 1950′s was 1 out 20 women in the USA. The incidence of breast cancer in 1988 was 1 out of 11 women in the USA. The incidence of breast cancer in 2001 was 1 out of 8 women in the USA. As of 2003, some parts of California have a breast cancer incidence of 1 out of 7. Could xenoestrogens play a contributory role in the increase in incidence in these estrogen sensitive cancers? Many researchers suspect that these xenoestrogens are contributing to breast cancer and endometrial cancer. Researchers are now trying to find an environmental cause for a breast cancer cluster in Long Island, New York.

In general, estrogen and progesterone oppose each other. Estrogen tells the cells to multiply and proliferate. Estrogen slows down the body metabolism (body temperature is typically 97F), and builds up fat (around the hips) in preparation for the pregnancy. In contrast, Natural Progesterone maintains the pregnancy. Natural Progesterone tells the cells to mature, differentiate and NOT to multiply. It tells the body to use the fat. Under Natural Progesterone stimulation the fat is burned up and reduced.

The strategy to get rid of cervical dysplasia is to get rid of the xenoestrogens in your life, take B vitamins AND take Natural Progesterone. Taking an easily absorbable DIM will also help lower your estradiol levels. These xenoestrogens mimic estrogen and cause bloating and cyclical breast tenderness. Get rid of the chemicals that mimic estrogen (xenoestrogens) and bloating and cyclical breast tenderness stops. These xenoestrogens are fat soluble and are stored in the body fat. Sometimes it takes years to get rid of these chemicals out of the body fat. However, the elimination of these fat soluble xenoestrogens may be speeded up by sauna and exercise that heats up the body so you sweat. Taking Natural Progesterone in the mean time will oppose estrogen and make you feel better reducing or eliminating the bloating and cyclical breast tenderness.

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Read the complete article and related information at A True Help for the Cervical Dysplasia

SaneVax announces Vice President of Public Relations, Leslie Carol Botha, to interview Dr. Margaret Flowers on community radio station KRFC FM 88.9 Fort Collins, CO.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 15, 2011 – The one-hour show will air on Monday July 18 from 6 to 7 pm MST and will be audio streamed at http://krfcfm.org.  Dr. Flowers will be addressing the need for a publicly financed single-payer health system, otherwise known as ‘an improved Medicare for all.’

Women’s Health talk show host, Leslie Carol Botha  will be interviewing Flowers on her radio segment titled ‘Holy Hormones Honey- The Greatest Story Never Told.’

Flowers’ is a congressional fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program, a nonprofit research and education organization consisting of health professionals and students who support a single-payer national health insurance model. The former director of the pediatric hospital program and chief of pediatrics at a rural Maryland hospital, she left practice in 2007 to work full-time on health care reform.

The reason Dr. Margaret Flowers works to advocate a universal, single-payer health care model, is because she wasn’t able to provide the quality of care she wanted to as a pediatrician. Flowers said she was pressured to see more patients in less time, and had to compromise her integrity by not being fully honest to insurance companies about patient problems.

Flowers feels that corporate influences from insurance companies have made it difficult for citizens to get the care they need. She said 51 million Americans have no insurance, and over 10 million became ‘under-insured’

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Read the complete article and related information at Single Payer Health Insurance Advocate to be interviewed on KRFC FM Fort Collins