July 16, 2009
Breast Cancer Advocates Take Aim At Industry Polluters
It has also called public attention to the fact that the pharmaceutical company most likely to profit from women’s fear of developing breast cancer is the largest sponsor of “public education” programs on breast cancer awareness.
In a statement issued recently with the Boston chapter of the international environmental organization, Greenpeace, the Women’s Community Cancer Project announced:
“October has traditionally been Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We want October to be declared National Cancer Industry Awareness Month to expose the links between environmental pollution and skyrocketing cancer rates. The same companies that manufacture cancer-causing toxins profit from breast cancer treatment. The United Kingdom-based Zeneca Group, the largest sponsor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month to date, has been sued by federal and state governments for dumping DDT and PCBs in California harbors. Zeneca is the manufacturer of tamoxifen, the most widely used breast cancer drug!”
Tamoxifen has been shown in numerous studies to reduce the rate of recurrence in older women with breast cancer. It is now the subject of an ongoing clinical trial involving healthy women at high risk for breast cancer to see if this drug will prevent the disease. There are anecdotal reports that many women are not waiting for the results of the trial but requesting the drug out of fear of developing breast cancer. Some consumer advocates are worried about the current trend toward lifelong drug therapy as prevention rather than investing in research to determine why breast cancer shows a steady increase in most industrialized countries (see HealthFacts, April 1994).
For more information about the Women’s Community Cancer Project, visit Cancer Articles – CancerArticles.org
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Comments on Breast Cancer Advocates Take Aim At Industry Polluters »
Right on! As a breast cancer surgeon and Founder and Director of the Breast Health and Healing Foundation (who mission is to discover the CAUSES of breast cancer and use that knowledge to PREVENT the disease) I fully applaud and support your efforts to reign in those who are dumping breast cancer-causing agents into our environment.
Please read my blogs on bisphenol A and, especially, on oral contraceptives.
Kind regards,
Dr. Ruddy
breasthealthandhealing.org
I would like to invite you to join a new group “The Answer to Breast Cancer-Vitamin D. The data on Vitamin D deficiency as a major contributing factor in causing cancer is now as extensive as the data on smoking causing cancer. Nearly two years ago the Canadian Cancer Society started recommending that everyone take Vitamin D supplements to prevent cancer and yet still, most in the world are unaware of this fact.
Studies have shown that Vitamin D deficiency is widespread. Indeed the campaign by dermatologists telling us to stay out the sun (which produces Vitamin D in our skin) has been so successful that even people living in sunny parts of the world are as deficient as those of us living in Northern regions.
More recent data also suggests that high Vitamin D levels may dramatically improve the prognosis of patients with breast cancer-help us spread the word.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=91037397172#/group.php?gid=91037397172
Susan