Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., F.A.C.S., is a breast cancer surgeon who practiced 33 years in New Jersey (1984-2017). A graduate of Georgetown School of Medicine,
she is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and certified
by the American Board of Surgery. She was surgical co-director of the Sanofi Breast Care Center at the Steeplechase Cancer Center in Somerville, New
Jersey for 10 years.
Dr Lanfranchi is co-founder and president of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, www.bcpinstitute.org,
a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable corporation that has as its mission to educate lay and professional communities in the methods of risk reduction and
prevention of breast cancer through research, publications, and lectures.
She was named a Castle Connelly Medical Ltd. New Jersey “Top Doc” for Women’s Health in Breast Surgery for the last 10 years she practiced. She is the
published author of articles on the physiology and epidemiology of abortion breast cancer and hormonal contraceptive risks and informed consent. In
her work with the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute over the past 20 years, she has traveled nationally and internationally to Australia, New Zealand,
Canada, Europe, China, Korea, India and South Africa, speaking at medical schools, hospitals, universities, cancer organizations, local and national
governmental bodies and the United Nations about breast cancer risks, including its association with induced abortion and hormonal contraceptives.
Readings &, Resources
- Dr Lanfranchi’s Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, bcpinstitute.org
- “Induced abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis,” by Dr Joel Brind (1996): https://jech.bmj.com/content/50/5/481
- Dr Brind explains his research (4 article series): actionlife.org/life-issues/abortion/medical-and-psychological-effects/item/119-abortionbreast-cancer-link
- Basics on the ABC link:
- “The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link,” lifesitenews.com/resources/abortion/the-abortion-breast-cancer-link
- “A Risk to Avoid: Abortion’s Link to Breast Cancer,” rtl.org/educational-materials/abortion-breast-cancer-link
- “Pro-choice filmmaker: It’s ‘ludicrous’ to entirely deny a link between abortion and breast cancer,” article on Punam Kumar Gill’s Hush documentary from LiveAction News, October 25, 2017
- New York Times article, 1996: “Analysis of 23 Studies Suggests Abortion Can Slightly Raise the Risk of Breast Cancer”
