Round-up of Informed Consent Documents Downplaying or Denying Knowledge of the Cancer Risk of Taking Estrogen

Here are a few examples of medical clinics either omitting or downplaying the cancer risk of estrogen to various tissue types, and generally failing to directly state that estrogen by itself causes cancers. Breast cancer is not the only kind of cancer estrogen might cause, especially in men, whose organs evolved to not expect cosmetic doses of estrogen and to expect testosterone, such as the pancreas. Even the documents that concede the elevated risk of breast cancer fail to explain that this increased risk is likely to apply* to any tissue type which expresses estrogen receptors, and may apply to tissues which down via immunomodulatory effects of steroids in general.

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Kaiser acknowledges that estrogen promotes breast cancers which have already formed, but does not mention that estrogen induces breast cancer which is not already present.

Fenway Health only mentions that estrogen may cause liver cancer via causing drug-induced hepatitis, downplaying the direct carcinogenic effect of estrogen on many tissues.

Portland State claims “it is not known if taking estrogen increases the risk of breast cancer.”.

Colorado State University becomes the first informed consent document I’ve found to directly state the increased risk of cancer.

Maine Family Planning admits it may increase the risk of breast cancer in a dose-dependent fashion.

K State discloses a possible increased risk of developing breast cancer.

“Trust Women.org” asks people to agree that “no one knows if taking estrogen increases the risk of breast cancer.”

Western Michigan University says it “may increase the risk of breast cancer.

UHS mentions that it “may be associated with an increased risk of breast tumors/cancer.”

UCSF describing the risk as slight and minimal, and irrelevantly bringing up the risk of breast cancer in women.

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