Antidepressants and the rise of breast cancer

[SD4020]

Originally Posted by Know Nonsense

Well you have a point, there is actually not enough research because the drug companies like big profits.

yeah, that's solid reasoning.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Know Nonsense

Here are some links for you search engine challenged people...

I looked at a couple of your links; one, the Harvard study, states that three antidepressants may interfere with the efficacy of Tamoxifen, a chemo drug. In the link to the Oxford journals, the study was done on a sample (no size is stated) of women who used a self-administered questionnaire, a method of gathering data known to contain multiple errors. In the first link you posted, it states that there "may" be an association between antidepressants and breast or ovarian cancer. Association is not causation. That article states, "Both the pre-clinical and clinical data are mixed in terms of showing an association between AD (antidepressant) use and breast and ovarian cancer. The possibility that ADs may exhibit a bi-phasic effect, whereby short-term use and/or low dose antidepressants may increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer, warrants further investigation."

Now you good ole girls look this info over carefully...

BTW, some of us who post on this subforum aren't female. And of those who are, we certainly aren't girls.

[Gone-2-Beach]

It's just more unsubstantiated crap from the anti-establishment, alternative-therapy, "We Hate Big Pharma" crowd. It too shall pass.

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

Since this thread has devolved into name-calling by the OP, it is closed.