If ever I had any doubts about my quest to reduce my family's chemical exposure, they were obliterated on Friday with the release of The Breast Cancer Fund's 2010 "State of The Evidence" report. The report clearly links the rise in breast cancer in women to the abundant use of petro-chemicals in our environment and our food.
“A substantial body of scientific evidence indicates that exposures to common chemicals and radiation contribute to the unacceptably high incidence of breast cancer,” said the report’s lead author Dr Janet Gray, a professor at Vassar College, New York. The research investigated all the scientific data on how breast cancer risk is increased by exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals, carcinogens and radiation.
This news also received coverage from the UK's Daily Express and you can read the full article here. The newspaper goes so far as to link cancer with cleaning products, clearly exposing the threat to women (and men if they clean the house regularly) caused by frequent use of household cleaning solutions.
"Experts warn that as many as one in eight women is at risk of contracting breast cancer – a dramatic increase since the 1930s when the first reliable cancer figures were recorded," declares the article. It goes on to state that, "The increasing incidence of breast cancer since the 1930s parallels the proliferation of synthetic chemicals."
In the words of Jeanne Rizzo, President of the Breast Cancer Fund, "This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, our message is clear: we must move beyond awareness to prevention.”
I couldn't agree more!
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In the meantime, while the scientists decide just how often it's safe to have a mammogram, some women are dying because they can't afford one in the first place. Screening that could catch breast cancer early should be available to all. Please go to The Breast Cancer Site and 'click-to-give.'
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