Estrogen and Breast Cancer: A Warning to Women

By Carol Ann Rinzler

Book Overview

A cautionary tale about American medicine's experimentation with female hormones, this balanced book chronicles the 60-year attempt to "cure" menopause with estrogen and the 40-year history of chemical contraception, weighing the pros and cons of estrogen use and allowing women to make informed decisions about their bodies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089793198X
• ISBN13: 9780897931984
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Hunter House
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant and prophetic

I bought this book when it first came out in 1993, and everything journalist Carol Ann Rinzler said then has now become accepted by the top medical researchers. Estrogen (especially when combined with progestin) DOES cause breast cancer, and the supposed benefits of estrogens for preventing heart disease are now being hotly debated. The HERS study (the first big randomized controlled trial on women with heart disease)actually found women had more heart attacks during the first year than women not on HRT. If you still have any doubt that estrogen causes breast cancer, READ THIS BOOK. Only when we're fully informed can women make clear-headed decisions about whether or not to take estrogen drugs for the rest of our lives.

Good case re estrogen causing increase in breast cancer

An good example of, I have no conflict of interest, journalism. Ms. Rinzler has done her homework. She makes a sound case for the idea that the exponential increase in Breast Cancer is mostly the result of the massive introduction of estrogen into women's lives. Birth Control Pills, Hormone Replacement Therapy, DES and more, are all clearly implicated. Why then do they continue to be sold, with ever increasing favor? Why is this being denied/ignored? Why is this just shuffled off as a factor to consider? Why has this book received so little attention? Women should read, study and meditate on this book. Take it to heart. Ask yourself these questions. A fine example of excellent journalism, well written, staight foward and easy to read