The Cancer Industry

• Cancer Prevention Coalition
  • Boycott the American Cancer Society (MS Word)

  

• 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 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
  • Mammography Screening and New Technologies
  • Policy on Breast Cancer Screening and "Early Detection"
  • Mammography and Detection resources
  • 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:

• Environmental Scorecard (look up toxics in your community)
• Toxics, Environmental Health and Pollution Mapping Projects
• Dioxin Homepage
• Bovine Growth Hormone Homepage
• 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:

Living Downstream by Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1997. www.steingraber.com

Our Stolen Future by Dr. Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and Dr. John Peterson Myers, Penguin Books, 1997. www.osf-facts.org

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/books/bcp.htm

The Politics of Cancer Revisited by Dr. Samuel Epstein, East Ridge Press, 1998. www.preventcancer.com/books/poc.htm

Cancer Wars by Dr. Robert Proctor, BasicBooks, 1995.

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. Read a review

Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating by Erik Marcus, McBooks Press (888-BOOKS11), 1997. www.vegan.com/pages/book.html

Milk: The Deadly Poison by Robert Cohen, Argus Publishing, 1997. www.notmilk.com/thebook.html

Check out more books at Breast Cancer Action's Online Bookstore

Last modified: 23 June 2003

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