Links
Research Safe Products
- Skin Deep: Cosmetic Safety Database
- The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
- The Breast Cancer Fund
- The Environmental Working Group
- Prevent Cancer now
Healthcare Education and Services
Medical Hair Loss Support and Information
Self-Help
- CancerSmart Consumer Guide
- Green Home Toxipedia
- Guide to Less Toxic Products
- Cottage Dreams Cancer Recovery Initiative
- Hearth Place Cancer Support Centre (Oshawa, Ontario)
http://www.wellspring.ca (Canadian Locations)
Activism
- Canadian Association of Physicians on the Environment
- Canadian Labour Congress Prevent Cancer Campaign
- Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia
- Labour Environmental Alliance Society
- Pollution Watch
- Saunders-Matthey Cancer Prevention Coalition, advocating primary prevention and elimination of environmental toxins
- Stop Cancer Where It Starts Campaign Guide
- Toronto Cancer Prevention Coalition
- Victoria Cancer Resource Centre
- 2008 Canadian Cancer statistics
- World Cancer Report
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
- Above the Fold Environmental Health News
Breast cancer incidence rates in the United States increased by more than 40 percent between 1973 and 1998. In 2008, a Canadian woman's lifetime risk of breast cancer is one in eight.
State of the Evidence 2008 is a comprehensive report on the environmental exposures linked to increased breast cancer risk, including natural and synthetic estrogens; xenoestrogens and other endocrine-disrupting compounds; carcinogenic chemicals and radiation.
This exhaustive catalog provides a much more complex picture of breast cancer causation than traditionally accepted, one in which timing, mixtures and dose of environmental exposures interact with genes and lifestyle factors.
The scientific evidence provides the basis to move forward with research and public policy changes that will help reduce our exposure to chemicals and radiation linked to increased breast cancer risk.
- State of the Evidence 2008 - The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment
- Chasing the Cancer Answer, CBC Marketplace, with Wendy Mesley
- Chemical Trespass- Pesticides in Our Bodies
- Collaborative on Health and the Environment
- Coming Clean Body Burden Home Page
- Consensus Statement on Breast Cancer and the Environment
- Cornell University Breast Cancer & Environmental Risks
- Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer
- Environmental Research Foundation
- IARC Carcinogen Evaluations
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- Our Stolen Future (endocrine disruptors and cancer)
- Scorecard, the Pollution Information Site
- State of the Evidence 2006
- The Connection Between the Environment and Breast Cancer: Toxic Nation Report Card
- Your Body Burden
Findings
While each study, chemical and exposure source alone doesn't tell the whole story, looking at them together allows us to better understand how to prevent the disease. Learn more about major emerging themes in breast cancer causation through the links below.
Cancer and Environment
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