[“MS Word” links are downloadable, printable versions — please print double-sided]
Cancer Prevention Coalition
Mother Jones Series on Breast Cancer and the Cancer Industry
- The cancer business (MS Word)
- Environmental toxins may be causing the big rise in breast cancers. Why do scientists ignore them? (MS Word)
- Should you get a mammogram?
RACHEL’s Environment & Health Weekly (click on “rachel’s” then use “search” or “show all”)
- Breast Cancer Epidemic Continues; Prevention Philosophy Is Ignored (#265) (MS Word)
- The Truth About Breast Cancer — Part 1 (#571) (MS Word)
- The Truth About Breast Cancer — Part 2 (#572) (MS Word)
- The Truth About Breast Cancer — Part 3 (#573) (MS Word)
- The Truth About Breast Cancer — Part 4 (#574) (MS Word)
- The Truth About Breast Cancer — Part 5 (#575) (MS Word)
- PVC and the Breasts of Mothers (#658) (breastfeeding)
- Breast Cancer, RBGH and Milk (#598) (MS Word)
- Milk, RBGH and Prostate Cancer (#593)
- Radiation Causes Breast Cancer (#443) (MS Word)
- The Major Cause of Cancer–Part 1 (#691) (radiation)
- The Major Cause of Cancer–Part 2 (#692) (radiation)
- The Major Cause of Cancer–Part 3 (#693) (radiation)
- Carcinogens Everywhere (#633)
- The Cancer War Grinds On (#641)
Prevention-oriented Breast Cancer Activist Organizations
- Prevention is the Cure Walk – Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition (Long Island, NY)
- Breast Cancer Action
- Think Before you Pink campaign (questioning Breast Cancer Awareness Month and corporate “pinkwashing”)
- Mammography Screening and New Technologies
- Policy on Breast Cancer Screening and “Early Detection”
- Researchers at UCSF/Mt. Zion Launch Alternative Medicine Clinical Trials (2000)
- Breast Cancer Fund
- Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition
- 1 in 9: The Long Island Breast Cancer Action Coalition
Other Links:
- Energy Justice Communities Mapping Project (look up dirty energy and waste facilities in your community)
- Environmental Scorecard (look up other toxic polluters in your community)
- Toxics, Environmental Health and Pollution Mapping Projects
- Dioxin
- Bovine Growth Hormone
- Vegetarianism / Veganism
- U.S. Office of Technology Assessment – September, 1990 Report on Unconventional Cancer Treatments
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Important Books to Read:
Life’s Delicate Balance: Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer by Janette Sherman, M.D., Taylor & Francis, 2000. www.janettesherman.com/books/
Living Downstream by Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1997. www.steingraber.com/books/living-downstream/
Our Stolen Future by Dr. Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and Dr. John Peterson Myers, Penguin Books, 1997. www.ourstolenfuture.org/aboutOSF.htm
Your Life in Your Hands – Understanding, Preventing and Overcoming Breast Cancer, by Professor Jane Plant, Virgin Publishing, 2001. http://www.positivehealth.com/Reviews/books/plant64.htm
The Breast Cancer Prevention Program by Dr. Samuel Epstein, D. Steinman, and S. LeVert, MacMillan Publishing Company. 2nd ed.,1998. www.preventcancer.com/press/books/bcp.htm
The Politics of Cancer Revisited by Dr. Samuel Epstein, East Ridge Press, 1998. www.preventcancer.com/press/books/poc.htm
Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know And Don’t Know About Cancer by Dr. Robert Proctor, BasicBooks, 1995. www.amazon.com/dp/0465008593
Dying From Dioxin – A Citizen’s Guide to Reclaiming Our Health and Rebuilding Democracy by Lois Marie Gibbs, South End Press (800-533-8478), 1995. shop.chej.org (Read a review)
Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating by Erik Marcus, McBooks Press (888-BOOKS11), 1997. www.vegan.com/books/
Milk: The Deadly Poison by Robert Cohen, Argus Publishing, 1997. www.notmilk.com/thebook.html