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Breast Cancer Politics:. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 128
Breast cancer continues to be one of the leading
causes of morbidity and mortality for women in the
United States. It is estimated that every three
minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer and
every twelve minutes a woman dies from this
disease. Research has identified three potential
causes for breast cancer: genetics, lifestyle
choices and the environment. Genetics and lifestyle
choices contribute to less than 30% of breast cancer
cases; the remaining 70% of all cases can be linked
to the environment and environmental carcinogens.
Environmental carcinogens can be found in cosmetics,
household cleaning materials, and as by products of
pollution, such as PCBs and organochlorides.
Elimination of environmental carcinogens would lead
to prevention. Despite this fact, research funding
policies tend to neglect the role of environmental
carcinogens which have been linked to breast cancer
and instead fund research for new screening and
treatment methods.
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