Breast Cancer Prevention : Time to take Responsibility

” 29 percent of all cancers in women start in the breast… ”

” These are not just statistics, data points filling up graphs and tables. These are our mothers, sisters, friends and neighbors — women in the prime of their lives with so much at stake and so much more to give: children, spouses and partners, promising careers, civic service, etc… ”

” We’re now exposed to vast and widespread use of hormonally active chemicals that didn’t exist a hundred years ago: pesticides, flame retardants, plasticizers (like bisphenol A), antibiotics in livestock feed, hormones in the beef and dairy cattle industry, and pharmaceutical hormones for women, as just a few examples. What comes around goes around … ”

Read Enough Already! An Urgent Mandate for Breast Cancer Prevention by Marisa Weiss, M.D., 03/04/2013.