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Abstract:
Quinacrine sterilization (QS) is a nonsurgical female method used by more than 175,000 women in over 50 countries. With FDA approval, QS is expected to be used by hundreds of millions of women. The negative international health consequences of the results of a 2-year rat study in 2010 by Cancel et al. in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (RTP) (56:156-165) are incalculable. S1C(R2) was ignored in this study, including the fundamental concept of maximum tolerated dose (MTD), which resulted in the use of massive doses (up to 35 times the MTD) which killed many of the rats and destroyed the uterus of survivors. The design of this rat study was built on the false assertion that this study mimics what happens in women. Cancel et al. (2010), concludes it "seems most likely" that genotoxicity was a major factor in the carcinogenicity observed, prompting the FDA to halt further research of QS. In RTP, McConnell et al. (2010), and Haseman et al. (2015), using the authors' data, definitively determined the carcinogenicity to be secondary to necrosis and chronic inflammation. Decisions made in the design, conduct, analysis, interpretation and reporting in this study lack scientific foundation. This paper explores these decisions.
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