Author: Lisa Frack
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/06/when-breast-cancer-has-no-…
A while back, EWG staff scientist Olga Naidenko wrote here about the need to focus breast cancer research on prevention - with an emphasis on the role of carcinogens. I was reminded of her post when I saw the film No Family History about the environmental causes of the disease. The filmmakers describe the film - which includes EWG’s Research Director Jane Houlihan - this way:
No Family History turns the debate about breast cancer upside down by proposing before solutions about prevention, rather searching only for a cure.
A few dedicated experts tell the story of how they began to realize all the toxic exposures in daily life that could be causing the epidemic - toxics in their home and even their own personal care products.
A few dedicated breast cancer activists relate how they tried to improve regulations to prevent breast cancer, and how they have changed their own lives to make it safer.
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