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From Pink to Green
From the early 1980s, the U.S. environmental breast cancer movement has championed the goal of eradicating the disease by emphasizing the importance of reducing-even eliminating exposure to chemicals and toxins.From Pink to Greenchronicles the movement's disease prevention philosophy from the beginning.Challenging the broader cultural milieu of pink ribbon symbolism and breast cancer \"awareness\" campaigns, this movement has grown from a handful of community-based organizations into a national entity, shaping the cultural, political, and public health landscape. Much of the activists' everyday work revolves around describing how the so called \"cancer industry\" downplays possible environmental links to protect their political and economic interests and they demand that the public play a role in scientific, policy, and public health decision-making to build a new framework of breast cancer prevention.
From Pink to Greensuccessfully explores the intersection between breast cancer activism and the environmental health sciences, incorporating public and scientific debates as well as policy implications to public health and environmental agendas.
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Your healthiest healthy : eight easy ways to take control and fight cancer, and live a longer, cleaner, happier life
\"Millions watched Samantha Harris share the story of her breast cancer diagnosis and double mastectomy at age 40. Now she offers an easy, eight-step plan for overcoming adversity, helping to fight cancer, and living a healthier, happier life. Your Healthiest Healthy combines her inspiring journey with research-backed advice, recipe and menu guides, workout charts, milestone logs, relationship activities, cheat sheets, checklists, and other must-have tools and resources.\" -- Publisher.
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The secret history of the war on cancer
From the National Book Award finalist, author of When Smoke Ran Like Water, a searing, haunting and deeply personal account of the War on Cancer.
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No family history
No Family History presents compelling evidence of environmental links to breast cancer, ranging from everyday cosmetics to industrial waste. Sabrina McCormick weaves the story of one survivor with no family history into a powerful exploration of the big business of breast cancer. As drugs, pink products, and corporate sponsorships generate enormous revenue to find a cure, a growing number of experts argue that we should instead increase focus on prevention—reducing environmental exposures that have contributed to the sharp increase of breast cancer rates. But the dollars continue to pour into the search for a cure, and the companies that profit, including some pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies, may in fact contribute to the environmental causes of breast cancer. No Family History shows how profits drive our public focus on the cure rather than prevention, and suggests new ways to reduce breast cancer rates in the future.
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Cancer and the Environment
The Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine wanted to address the link between environmental factors and the development of cancer in light of recent advances in genomics. They asked what research tools are needed, how new scientific information can be applied in a timely manner to reduce the burden of cancer, and how this can be flexible enough to treat the individual.
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Childhood Cancer: A Growing Problem
\"Traditionally a disease associated mostly with aging, cancer is even more devastating when it strikes the young. Families of children with cancer are often bewildered, asking difficult questions about what caused the disease and whether they are somehow responsible for what has happened to their child. Unfortunately, the science of epidemiology has not provided definitive answers to these wrenching questions, and while childhood cancer is by and large rare...it is still the leading cause of disease-related death among children in the United States, afflicting approximately 8,000 children under the age of 15 annually. And despite the efforts of researchers to find a cure, childhood cancer rates also appear to be increasing at a rate of approximately 10% each year.\" (ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES) Investigations of childhood cancer clusters and environmental factors, and questions raised from improved diagnosis, are discussed.
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