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  Blog: Recognizing And Battling Breast Cancer  

Breast cancer occurs due to the irrepressible growth of cells in the breast that invades the nearby tissues and spreads throughout the body. These collections of irrepressible growth of tissue are called tumors or malignant tumors. However, not all tumors are cancerous.

Breast cancer has been diagnosed in large numbers in North America and Europe. In 2001, about 200,000 cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in the United States alone. Every woman has a 1 in 8 risk of developing breast cancer, but the risk of dying from breast cancer is much lower, barely 1 in 28.

The risk of getting breast cancer is generally higher among older women, women with a family history or previous history of breast cancer, women who had radiation therapy in the chest region, women who started their periods before 12 years old, women who had menopause after 50 years old, women who never had children or had them age 30 or older, or women with genetic mutation. In recent times genetic mutations for breast cancer have become a hot topic of research.

The breast cancer tumor has the following symptoms: lump or thickening that appears on the breast or underarm, changes in the breast’s shape, nipple turned inwards followed by colorless discharge, red or scaled skin or nipple, or ridges on the breast skin.

If a woman experiences any of these symptoms, it does not necessarily mean she has breast cancer. In such a case she should undergo a breast cancer personal check-up. It is estimated that 95% of breast cancer is detected through personal check-up. The breast cancer personal check-up includes checking for lumps in the breasts after each menstrual period, puckering the skin, and checking for nipple retraction or discharge. For consistent result, every woman should do a breast cancer personal check-up at the same time every month. Various other techniques such as mammography, thermography, ultrasonography, computerized tomography scan etc, can also help detect breast cancer.

Breast cancer treatments include surgery that removes cancerous tissues, with breast conservation therapy (BCT) being one such surgery. Other breast cancer treatments include chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormonal therapy and biologic therapy. Radiotherapy is a common breast cancer treatment, and radiation treatment and chemotherapy may follow surgery to ensure the destruction of the stray cancer cells.

Even after undergoing many or all of these breast cancer treatment measures, unfortunately almost half the women suffer from a recurrence of the disease.

If you are searching for ways to battle Breast Cancer, visit Susan’s site at http://www.breast-cancer-survivor.info. Susan also enjoys writing on a wide range of topics at http://www.sports-and-recreation-hub.info.


 
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 9:46pm | comment (0) | discuss () | permalink    
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  Blog: Breast Discomfort – Causes and Symptoms of Breast Discomfort  

Breast discomfort is a normal part of being a woman. It is almost always not a sign of breast cancer. Breasts are mammary glands that are responsive to natural hormonal changes, especially fluctuations in estrogen, that occur at menstruation, menopause, and pregnancy. Hormonal changes can cause breasts to become hot, swollen, tender, and painful to the touch. “Breast discomfort is really common for women,” says Amanda Clark, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. “We see it a great deal during early pregnancy, with menstruation, and during early hormone therapy at menopause.”


Readmore at Breast Discomfort

 
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  Blog: Funny Diet Tips (GD04)  

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Posted: Feb 26, 2008 12:57pm | comment (0) | discuss () | permalink    
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http://www.pangeaday.org/


Blissed be, Ani  (Goddess at Play) *atom*

 
Posted: Jan 5, 2008 2:23pm | comment (0) | discuss () | permalink    
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Alert: Alarming Increase in Double Mastectomies  
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Alarming Increase In Double Mastectomies

by Dr. John F. Montalvo, Jr. ND, DNM, MH

(NewsTarget) A recent study that was released in October by the Journal of Clinical Oncology stated that there was a 150% increase in the number of Double Mastectomies between the years 1998 to 2003. In an age where medical science is looking more towards breast conservation. There is a segment of the population that is electing to not only amputate the cancerous breast but also the healthy breast.

Now let me throw out some statistics that were used by this study. They identified 152,755 women with stage I, II, or III cancer - of that number, 4,969 patients chose contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (meaning that these women chose to amputate their healthy breast along with the cancerous breast) . The rate was 3.3% for all surgically treated women; 7.7% for patients undergoing mastectomy. The overall rate was a significant increase from 1.8% in 1998 to 4.5% in 2003. And during the same period of 1998 to 2003, the contralateral prophylactic mastectomy rate for patients undergoing mastectomy significantly increased from 4.2% in 1998 to 11.0% in 2003. What was also surprising was that younger women were making this decision and women who had stage one cancer were making the decision far more frequently than those in advance stages. The women who were mostly white, with a previous cancer diagnosis, were more likely to opt for a contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, the study found, as were women who had lobular histology, meaning the cancer started in the lobules or milk-making glands of the breast.

The study's lead author, Dr. Todd M. Tuttle, chief of surgical oncology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, stated in a report that was published by the Associated Press and in USA Today on October 23, 2007: "I'm afraid that women believe having their opposite breast removed is somehow going to improve their breast cancer survival. In fact, it probably will not affect their survival." Dr. Tuttle went on to explain, "The initial tumor already may have sent out seeds that have spread to key organs."(1)

The Other Disturbing Trend

The other disturbing trend was young women who had genetic testing for the mutation of gene BRCA 1 or BRCA 2. I read in a New York Times article published on September 16, 2007 of a thirty-three year old woman agonizing over whether she should have a double mastectomy because she was found with the mutated gene, but not yet with cancer. Her 63 year-old mom was a breast cancer survivor.

Yet, a Cochrane Review published in 2004 on women with BRCA mutations concluded: "Published observational studies demonstrated that bilateral prophylactic mastectomy (BPM) was effective in reducing both the incidence of, and death from, breast cancer, more rigorous prospective studies (ideally randomized trials) are needed... By one estimate, most of the women deemed high risk by family history (but not necessarily BRCA 1 or 2 mutation carriers) who underwent these procedures would not have died from breast cancer, even without prophylactic surgery... Of the psychosocial outcomes measured, body image and feelings of femininity were the most adversely affected."(2)

What is disturbing about this trend seems like the more "enlightened" the medical community is, the further we are going back to the dark ages. Breast cancer is the most studied disease in the world. Back in the 1950's and 60's, radical mastectomies (where both breasts were removed with part of the chest wall) were the trend. And then in the later part of the 20th Century, we found out that that type of treatment was not increasing the life span of a woman any more than partial removal or lumpectomy. Now here in the 21st Century, we are going back to the 1950's.

The removal of both breasts because of a possible genetic defect is almost akin to removing both your legs; because your grandfather had diabetes and he lost his legs, and your mother had diabetes and she lost her legs. There is a history of diabetes in my family so let me cut off my legs before I have to face the inevitability. In both cases this does not have to be so.

There are hundreds of studies showing that no matter what type of cancer you have, there is a natural alternative to overcoming it or, if you do not have a degenerative disease, you can prevent it. This can be done by eating large quantities of raw fresh vegetables and fruits with nuts, seeds and legumes (preferably organic); by staying away from animal products of all kinds and all processed foods that cause an acidic system. When your body is acidic (on a pH scale) you are more prone to all sorts of diseases. Your body needs to be maintained at a slightly alkaline level of about 7.4 .

There are studies showing that by getting omega-3 fatty acids in your system (preferably from flax seed), you will stop the growth of breast cancer in its tracks. Even if you have the mutated gene BRCA 1 or BRCA 2. It has also been found that by getting curcumin in your system, if you have cancer, this is just as or more effective in destroying cancer cells than chemotherapy agents, and without all the side effects. That study was conducted by M.D. Anderson in Houston and shelved because it was unpatentable, even though the process to extract curcumin was.

These are just a few suggestions that will help you be proactive in preventing cancer, and if you have it, these will greatly help you in overcoming cancer, like I did almost seven years ago.

The medical profession has had a history of mutilating women for the sake of science whether mentally or physically. They want to do radical things to your bodies. And they are not willing to give women the full information of what is truly available to them. They believe that if they tell people that a radical change in their lifestyle and eating habits would help save their lives, it would be a complete waste of time.

Yet their are hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of stories of just that, people healing themselves by changing their eating habits and lifestyles. By doing that, they are walking testimonies of true healing and of leading fully active lives. So stop looking at mutilating your body, and start looking at getting a radical healing from changing your lifestyle and eating habits in a radical way (and in some cases it may not be that radical). By doing that, not only are you going to have a better outlook on your life, but you will be doing something wonderful for the planet that we all live on.

References:

(1) Tuttle TM, Habermann EB, Grund EH, Morris TJ, Virnig BA. Increasing Use of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy for Breast Cancer Patients: A Trend Toward More Aggressive Surgical Treatment. J Clin Oncol. 2007 Oct 22; [Epub ahead of print]

(2) Lostumbo L, Carbine N, Wallace J, Ezzo J. Prophylactic mastectomy for the prevention of breast cancer. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004 Oct 18;(4):CD002748

About the author

Dr. John F. Montalvo, Jr. of The Genesis Health Connection. "Getting You Connected to Your Health"
Dr. John is a Naturopath, Master Herbalist, Voice Bio Sound Therapist, Certified Natural Health Professional, Doctor of Naturopathic Ministry, Health Minister and Cancer Overcomer. He currently has a teaching ministry and does house visitations to bring the Good News of Natural Health from God's Garden. In my opinion women have been used since the turn of the century - when the very first surgeon who recommended surgery for cancer was hired at Memorial Hospital (yes, Sloan Kettering today) by the wealthy to operate on cancerous cousins.  The man, a sadist, had a long history of doing experimental "GYN/OB" surgery on black women in the South, and was FINALLY fired from "Memorial Hospital" for STARTING THE SAME TREND at the hospital under the auspices of being a "specialist" in cancer surgery - as fuel for sadists in the conventional medical community.  AND women need to WAKE UP to their own power, their own responsibility, their own ability to heal, or before you know it, EVERY SINGLE FEMALE ORGAN WILL BE REMOVED - which is precisely what has happened since the turn of the century.  Please note: MEN WOULD NEVER ALLOW THEIR MALE ORGANS TO BE LOBBED OFF LIKE THIS, in my personal opinion.  What is so threatening about women anyway???????????????????????????????????????????


Please ladies - RESEARCH!!!!!!!!!!! &

Blissed be, Ani  *atom* 

 
Posted: Jan 2, 2008 12:18am | comment (1) | discuss () | permalink    
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Message: Gershon Therapy and Cancer  
Along with raw foods/juicing diets and pancreatic enzyme therapy, the Gershon Therapy has worked incredibly well to CURE cancer.

Anyone diagnosed with cancer - which may well be 1 in 2 people - should investigate all three methods very thoroughly before embarking on any treatment protocol recommended by conventional medicine - I believe. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bMU9O6qEyw

Blissed be, Ani  (Goddess at Play) *atom*

 
Posted: Dec 31, 2007 8:39pm | comment (2) | discuss () | permalink    
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  Message: Breast Cancer Industry a Scam?  

Breast Cancer Industry A Scam? Support Education, Not Medication

by Mike Adams

This is the second annual publication of NewsTarget's "Education, Not Medication" program designed to teach women the truth about how to prevent and even cure breast cancer. This disease is 90 percent preventable, mostly using completely free therapies. The breast cancer industry does not want women to be made aware of these free therapies because most of the better-known non-profits in the area of breast cancer are, themselves, dependant on revenues from the companies that profit from the disease.

The breast cancer industry is now run by corporations that profit from women who receive breast cancer treatments. With nearly all breast cancer nonprofits being subjugated by drug companies, the FDA censoring alternative cancer solutions, and the mainstream media wildly exaggerating the benefits of near-useless cancer drugs like Herceptin, there's hardly a message heard about breast cancer today that doesn't have a profit motive behind it.

"Breast cancer has been transformed into a market-driven industry. It has become more about making money for corporate sponsors than funding innovative ways to treat breast cancer." - Health Studies researcher Samantha King, author of Pink Ribbons Inc.

The emphasis on breast cancer "screening," and the circus of holding breast cancer awareness months is, of course, all about recruiting more women into a system of treatment that generates profits for drug companies. Using fear-based tactics of recruitment (like telling women, "You'll die in six months if you don't undergo chemotherapy..."), the breast cancer industry manages to corral women of all races and ages into treatments that actually harm far more women than they help. New research, for example, shows that certain classes of chemotherapy drugs are so dangerous to human health that they cause heart failure in many women who use them. The drugs are called anthracyclines, and the research was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (October, 2007).

Chemotherapy is so dangerous to the heart, liver, kidneys and brain that the very act of screening for cancer tumors with mammography machines ultimately causes harm to most patients. Find that hard to believe? Researchers at the Nordic Cochrane Center in Denmark studied 500,000 women to determine the results of breast cancer screening programs. They found that for every one woman helped by breast cancer screening, ten were harmed through false diagnosis or unnecessary treatments that devastated their health.

"What seems like good and obvious advice in everyday life is not always scientifically or medically sound", said Peter Gotzsche, MD, director of the center. "So we might say there is a benefit of one but a harm of 10 from screening for breast cancer." You can read more about that story at www.NewsTarget.com/020829.html

In other words, breast cancer screening is surprisingly harmful to women. That's partly because the procedure itself irradiates the breast tissue and actually causes cancer, but also because practically any screening result producing a questionable blur on the final image may result in a woman being manipulated through fear into undergoing aggressive, toxic cancer treatments even when they never had breast cancer in the first place. (False positives are extremely common in breast cancer screening, and in some cases, the machinery is incorrectly calibrated and doesn't even meet radiology standards.)

Preventing prevention

And yet breast cancer screening is the only form of "prevention" offered by the cancer industry. But it isn't prevention, it's detection. Breast cancer screening does nothing to educate women how to really prevent breast cancer, nor does it teach women how to change their diets and lifestyles so that breast cancer never develops in the first place. In fact, the strategy of the cancer industry today can be best described as waiting for women to get cancer, then treating it with toxic drugs that just happen to generate huge profits for pharmaceutical companies.

While tens of millions of women are developing undetectable, early-stage breast cancer right now, the cancer industry does nothing. They will not tell these women how to halt the growth of cancer tumors; they will only wait until the cancer becomes large enough to see on a screening test, and then they will scare the women to death with harmful, authoritative medical demands and toss them into chemotherapy -- a treatment that causes permanent, irreversible harm to the brain, heart, liver, kidneys and other organs.

Yet even the World Health Organization admits that 70 percent of all cancers can be prevented through simple changes in food and lifestyle. That number is probably conservative, though. My own opinion is that 90 percent of all cancers can be prevented through simple food and lifestyle changes. Yet no one in the cancer industry seems interested in teaching any of these strategies to women. In the cancer industry, there is no incentive to teach women how to avoid breast cancer, because to do so would eliminate a future customer! Billions of dollars in revenue are at stake here, and the cancer industry is banking on the continuation of this disease among the population.

That's why I started the Education Not Medication program. It is a humble effort to teach women how to prevent their own breast cancer through scientifically-supported natural health strategies that are easy to understand and simple to follow. They include things like eating more broccoli and garlic, getting more natural sunlight on your skin (to generate the anti-cancer nutrient Vitamin D, which has recently been shown to prevent an astonishing 77 percent of ALL cancers!) and avoiding cancer-causing chemicals in manufactured foods (such as sodium nitrite, found in bacon, sausage and virtually all packaged meats). A more detailed list is offered below.

The cancer industry depends on more cancer

The cancer industry remains silent about these cancer prevention solutions. Ever wonder why? It's because the livelihood of the industry depends on more cancer! If cancer rates plummeted by 70 percent or more, the industry would be devastated. The incomes, egos and power positions of cancer industry operators depend entirely on the continued spread of cancer among the population.

Ever notice that cancer centers are not called, "Anti-Cancer Centers?" You see them in virtually every city and state across the country: The Washington Cancer Center, or the San Francisco Cancer Center. Here in Arizona, we have a massive, new building being constructed, and it's named the Arizona Cancer Center. These are all monuments to cancer, and they are usually for-profit businesses constructed for the purpose of making money from a woman's disease. They turn cancer into profit, and they depend on the continuation of cancer to stay in business.

That's why there's no real effort underway to teach women how to prevent breast cancer. There's no program in place to teach women about the anti-cancer effects of sunlight and vitamin D (in fact, cancer industry groups like the American Cancer Society run public service ads warning people about sunlight!), there's no honest effort to teach women about the natural anti-cancer medicine founds in certain foods, and no one is telling women the truth about the cancer-causing chemicals in perfumes, laundry detergent, cosmetics and personal care products. Recent research shows that even air fresheners are contaminated with phthalates, and new details about cancer-causing chemicals in household products seem to emerge every week.

But when it comes to preventing cancer, the cancer industry is silent. Why should they say anything, anyway? If they teach women how to prevent breast cancer, they lose customers. Besides, the scheme they're running right now is working brilliantly. They maximize revenues and profits by preventing prevention and waiting for women to get cancer, then treating them with high-profit pharmaceuticals, radiation and surgical procedures. They have the easiest business model in the world: All they have to do is keep their mouths shut about what causes cancer, and wait for new customers to fill the cancer centers. And to help them out, corporations, media organizations and volunteers (many are women!) actually help them raise more money!

Women raising money for cancer industry non-profit groups makes about as much sense as Jews raising money for Hitler. The cancer industry is exploiting these women, using their bodies to generate profits!

It's time to teach genuine cancer prevention to women

The cancer industry has been getting away with this scam for years, but I say enough is enough. It's time to declare, "The Emperor has no clothes!" and that the best way to help protect the lives of women is to teach them how to avoid breast cancer rather than waiting for them to get it.

And doing so is surprisingly simple. All you have to do is raise awareness about the things that cause breast cancer vs. the things that prevent breast cancer. This can be done through public service announcements, information handouts, or even internet campaigns like this one.

I also suggest that all these cancer treatment centers donate 100 percent of their profits to cancer prevention campaigns. It's wrong to profit from a woman's cancer, is it not? If these businesses really cared about stopping cancer, they'd refuse to profit from the disease and, instead, use the money to help stop cancer in future generations of women (and men, for that matter).

What an idea, huh? That these ultra-wealthy non-profits and billion-dollar corporations might spend some money on teaching women how to prevent cancer...

If it ever really happens, of course, it will only be as a cover-your-ass reaction to public awareness about the corporatization of the breast cancer industry. As word spreads, these non-profits will have to do something to save their reputation, so they'll start running tiny "prevention" campaigns to save face. But underneath the facade, make no mistake: cancer is big, big business, and the cancer industry is driven by profiting from a woman's body, not protecting it from cancer.

"[The cancer industry is] a market-driven industry that feeds off breast cancer survivors." - Health Studies researcher Samantha King, author of Pink Ribbons Inc.

The real answers to breast cancer prevention

Here, for the benefit of women everywhere, is a partial list of the things that cause cancer and things that don't. You're not going to find full descriptions and citations here, as that would require an entire book all by itself, but this is a very useful reference list that tells the truth about what causes or prevents cancer in the human body.

18 things that CAUSE cancer: (in no particular order)
  • Smoking cigarettes
  • Mammography radiation - see articles on mammograms
  • Chemotherapy and radiation
  • Perfumes and fragrance products
  • Cosmetics and personal care products - see articles on personal care products
  • Home cleaning products, including laundry detergent, dryer sheets, etc.
  • Drinking non-organic milk or eating non-organic dairy products
  • Hydrogenated oils and trans fatty acids - See Poison In the Food or articles on hydrogenated oils
  • Plastic food containers - includes plastic lining inside food cans
  • Sodium nitrite - found in most processed meats, see articles on sodium nitrite
  • Pesticides, PCBs, chlorine and other chemicals
  • Acrylamides (formed during high-heat food processing such as frying)
  • Watching television / lack of exercise
  • Severe emotional distress or relationship stress
  • Refined sugars / refined grains
  • Dry cleaning chemicals
  • Hair color chemicals
  • Nail polish remover


22 things that PREVENT cancer:

The cancer industry attacks nearly all genuine cancer solutions

After examining this list, it's not difficult to notice something quite curious: The cancer industry promotes many things that cause cancer while attacking most things that prevent cancer. Naturopathic doctors who once prescribed laetrile for cancer patients, for example, have been run out of the country or arrested. Herbal product companies have been censored to such a degree that none dare tell the truth about the anti-cancer effects of their own products, and even broccoli growers and marketers are scared into remaining silent about the remarkable, scientifically-proven anti-cancer effects of broccoli.

In other words, if you want to know what the cancer industry supports or attacks, just check to see which list it's on. If it's on the list of things that prevent cancer, the cancer industry (including most of its doctors, oncologists, non-profits and government regulators) will be against it. If it's on the list of things that cause cancer, they will likely promote it. The cancer industry, you see, isn't interested in stopping cancer. It depends on the disease!

The exception to this is, of course, tobacco. That's a substance that doctors once gladly promoted in magazine advertisements, claiming that smoking was good for your health and even improved your teeth! But today, the tobacco scam has long since been revealed, and even conventional medicine is now squarely against this substance that they once strongly promoted.

The American Medical Association, by the way, used to actually run ads for cigarettes in its flagship medical journal, JAMA. Doctors can always be bought off and made to promote whatever poison is making the most money this decade (these people have no shame). In the 1950's, it was cigarettes. Today, it's pharmaceuticals and chemotherapy. Different drugs, same scam. But money was always -- and IS always -- the bottom line for conventional medicine. Today, doctors promote chemotherapy, which is far more toxic than smoking!

Join the Education Not Medication effort

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Additional reading:

Breast Cancer Deception (special report): http://www.NewsTarget.com/Report_Breast_Cancer_Deception_0.html

Breast cancer articles on NewsTarget:
http://www.NewsTarget.com/Breast_Cancer.html

Breast cancer screening harms ten women for every one it helps:
http://www.newstarget.com/020829.html

Mammograms cause breast cancer (and other cancer facts you probably never knew)
http://www.newstarget.com/010886.html

Cancer diagnosis doubles suicide rate in patients
http://www.newstarget.com/020827.html

Nutrients in cruciferous vegetables found to induce death of cancer cells
http://www.newstarget.com/020839.html


 
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"You are a spark of God's own fire." - Jiddu Krishnamurti


Giving thanks for all graces,  Ani  *earthhug*

 
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Expert: Modern Chemicals Brought Cancer Epidemic

First tobacco. Then asbestos. Now we're awash in a sea of new poisons.

by Pamela Weintraub

For those involved in the ongoing drama of cancer research, a pressing mystery remains: While treatments are better and survival times longer, there are far more newly diagnosed cancers than ever before. One reason for the upsurge, say experts, is a revolution in imaging. From MRI scans to digital mammograms, our high-tech wizardry makes tumors visible at ever smaller stages, so that we’re catching some that previously would not have come to light at all. Now comes Devra Davis, a preeminent cancer epidemiologist and environmentalist, to challenge that notion. The increase in cancer is real, she says, caused in large part by the daily allotment of poison that is the price of admission to our 21st-century world.

Davis’s new book, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Basic Books, $27.50), is a wake-up call for all those who have accepted the poisons of our age of plenty without a blink. She explains, in detail, the long and ugly fight against known cancer-causing agents, including asbestos, benzene, vinyl chloride, and tobacco. She also ticks off evidence against the many potential carcinogens plaguing us still: the ADD drug Ritalin; aspartame, the sugar substitute used in diet drinks and foods; and untold pesticides, cleaning agents, and cosmetics found frequently in our homes. Even tests conducted routinely in emergency rooms, like CT scans of the chest, deliver as much radiation as 400 X-rays, says Davis.

Skeptics will point out that the evidence against many of these potential risks is meager. But most of the real evidence may never come to light, Davis argues, because scientists have been strong-armed into silence by companies who fund their work, and because, as a condition of any settlement, lawyers have kept the human evidence sealed. To keep us in the dark, she says, industry experts are framing the debate about radiation and chemicals using the same terms and PR strategies they used with tobacco.

Davis envisions a better way to live: Reduced use of cosmetic pesticides, fewer grooming and cleaning agents that pollute, and greener, cleaner buildings and communities. “If we insist on having proof that harm has happened before we move to prevent or control damage, we are dooming future generations,” she writes.

One could take Davis, who is the director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, to task on the same grounds used by critics against Rachel Carson, whose book, Silent Spring, launched the modern environmental movement: Davis unabashedly makes the case against toxins and their health toll without presenting the other point of view. By design, this is not a balanced account. But the other side’s case has been stated and restated many times. The Secret History of the War on Cancer challenges the heart of that case.


Blissed be, Ani 

 
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  Blog: BREAST CANCER PETITION....PLEASE SIGN....THANK YOU  
 Breast Cancer Awareness Ribbon Flower Penguin WaveBon Jour Ladies..Como telle vu?  I am sending this very important bill for all of us beautiful women out here that care about ourselves & our health...it is for all of us women.   We need this bill.  It is because I love you all dearly & care about each & every one of us women that i send this, it might save a life or two... Penguin Cuddleso, if u will, it takes 2 seconds...please sign for all, and forward this to all the ladies that you know & love...it really is a good bill..love you all..Peace..Shell Peace 3 More Kisses 
If there was ever a time when our voices and choices should be heard,
>> this
> is one of those times.
>>
>> If you're receiving this, it's because I think you will take t h e 30
>> seconds to go to vote on this issue and send it on to others.
>>
>> You know who will do the same.
>>
>> There's a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act which
> will require Insurance Companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital
> stay
> for patients undergoing a mastectomy. It's about eliminating the
> 'drive-through mastectomy' where women are forced to go home just a
> few hours after surgery, against the wishes of their doctor, still
> groggy
> from anesthesia and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached.
>>
>> Lifetime Television has put this bill on their Web page with a
>> petition drive to show your support. Last year over half the House
>> signed on.
>>
>> PLEASE!! Sign the petition by clicking on the Web site below. You need
> not give more than your name and zip code number.
>>
>
>> http://www.lifetimetv.com/breastcancer/petition/signpetition.php>
>>
>> This takes about 2 seconds. PLEASE PASS THIS ON to your friends and
>> family, and on behalf of all women, THANKS

 
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