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Breast cancer as an epidemic disease which suddenly emerged along with the AIDS in the United States at the beginning of the 1980s, continued its unabated rise ever since and steadily continued its unprecedented epidemic advance worldwide. Initially affecting mainly the advanced, developed and ‘rich’ countries of the West, the breast cancer epidemic is now increasingly affecting the developing, less-advanced and ‘poor’ countries of all parts of the world. The ‘latent period’ of transition from the ‘West” to the East and South, took less than a decade to extend. The epidemic of breast cancer along with the other accompanying, widespread diseases in women of all ages became better apparent now and is increasingly attracting more attention and concern More than 34 years ago, a case-control study was initiated and completed in the U.S. in order to test an a priori hypothesis that a reduced or eliminated exposure to human seminal factors during the reproductive life-spans of women is an etiologic risk factor of developing breast cancer in American married women (Gjorgov, 1978a,b; Gjorgov, 1979; 1980, 1990, 1991, 1994a,b,c, 1996, 1998b). The hypothesis-testing study was jointly carried out at the University of North Carolina, School of Public Health (Epidemiology), at Chapel Hill, NC, and at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Hospital, in Philadelphia, PA, between 1974 and 1978, more than eight years before mutual epidemics of AIDS and breast cancer ever emerged. The results of the study corroborated the evidence of a significant association between exposure to barrier contraception (condom use and withdrawal practice) and the development of breast cancer in American and other women. In addition, the results provided evidence of a potential for primary (non-chemical) prevention/protection against breast cancer at individual, familial and community levels. Quantifying the risk, the results of the study indicated that women who used condoms and/or practiced withdrawal had a risk of developing breast cancer of 5.2 times greater (95%CI 3.1 – 8.7) than women who used non-barrier methods for fertility-control and family-planning purposes (diaphragm, IUDs, rhythm, oral-contraceptive pills, cream-jellies, and tubal ligation). By using Bayes’ conditional theorem, it was estimated that 17% of women in the mainstream population using condoms / withdrawal were likely to develop breast cancer, versus 3.9% of women using non-barrier contraceptive methods. The evidence challenged head on the widespread misperception that all women are at an ‘equal risk of

AIDS Changed America with the Twin Breast Cancer Epidemic: Exploring the Consequences of Condomization