Breast cancer awareness should be a year-round event (Huffington Post, 10/27/2011)
Mounting scientific evidence links exposure to everyday chemicals — in our food, our products, our air and our water — to breast cancer.
State of the Evidence
Breast cancer advocates want ban on key plastic ingredient (The Talk Radio News Service, 6/8/2011)
At a briefing for Congressional staff last week in Washington, D.C., the Breast Cancer Fund shared the evidence linking toxic chemicals in our environment to high rates of the disease.
Quit the pesticide man (Huffington Post, 1/5/2011)
Together they weave strawberry pesticides, breast cancer, the problem with the EPA, safe cosmetics and being a Debbie Downer into something that you want to read.
Taking stock of toxic beauty products (Montreal Gazette, 10/18/2010)
“I’ve just read a report by The Breast Cancer Fund that has shaken me up enough to prompt this showdown, and inspired me to turn over a new leaf when it comes to choosing cosmetics”
Week Two: Breast Cancer Prevention Month
Week two of Breast Cancer Prevention Month focuses on the reality that chemicals in our everyday products are not just affecting our health — they’re making their way into our environment.
It’s Time for Breast Cancer Prevention Month (Huffington Post, 10/12/2010)
It’s that pink time of year again, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But when virtually every American has been touched by the disease, who among us is not aware of breast cancer? What we need is Breast Cancer PREVENTION Month…
Week One: Breast Cancer Prevention Month
The release of our latest edition of State of the Evidence launched a month-long campaign to move the breast cancer conversation in October beyond awareness and to prevention. Here’s a roundup for week one of Breast Cancer Prevention Month.
Powerful New Video: Breast Cancer Prevention Starts with Us
The Breast Cancer Fund today released a new video telling the story of prevention through the voices of those touched by this disease.
Searching for breast cancer culprits in chemicals (USA Today, 10/4/2010)
An article in this morning’s USA Today starts a critical conversation about breast cancer’s chemical connections.
New report catalogues chemical and radiation links to breast cancer
On the first day of what we at the Breast Cancer Fund consider Breast Cancer Prevention Month, we released the 2010 edition of our landmark report, State of the Evidence: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment.