Breast Surgeon: Strong correlation between birth control & breast cancer

How is it acceptable that this information isn't loudly explained to each patient before she choses to take the Pill or not?! In a culture that is so concerned with the idea of "choice," why are women not being fully educated so that they can make an informed CHOICE regarding the Pill? Its ironic that so much use of hormone replacement therapy has been stopped due to it being carcinogenic, and yet these are the same hormones that are used widely in the Pill, which is prescribed daily to thousands of women. Women deserve to be fully educated on the risks, not just the "benefits" of the Pill. See the following link:

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/surgeon-birth-control-pill-a-molotov-cocktail-for-breast-cancer?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7ce1ba4df0-LifeSiteNews_com_US_Full_Text_12_06_2010&utm_medium=email

“This stuff is not new, it’s not magic, it’s in the literature,” Dr. Angela Lanfranchi, a breast surgical oncologist and co-founder of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute said, linking pill use to the 660 percent rise in non-invasive breast cancer since 1973. “Women want to know, and women have a right to know, what researchers have known for over 20 years.”

She compared media treatment of the pill’s cancer risk to that of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which was found to be carcinogenic in 2002. Once word got out, 15 out of 30 million women in America taking HRT stopped; by 2007, invasive breast cancer in women over 50 for estrogen-receptive positive tumors dropped 11 percent.

Meanwhile, she noted, hormonal contraception - essentially the same drug as HRT and with a similar cancer risk, about 25-30 percent - continues to be touted as harmless and even healthy. And yet, the International Agency on Research of Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, classified hormonal contraceptives in 2005 as a group one carcinogen along with asbestos and radium.

Unlike the HRT discovery, “I don’t remember one six o’clock news report about that information,” said Lanfranchi.