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Breast cancer continues to be one of the leading §causes of morbidity and mortality for women in the §United States. It is estimated that every three §minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer and §every twelve minutes a woman dies from this §disease. Research has identified three potential §causes for breast cancer: genetics, lifestyle §choices and the environment. Genetics and lifestyle §choices contribute to less than 30% of breast cancer §cases; the remaining 70% of all cases can be linked §to the environment and environmental carcinogens. §Environmental carcinogens can be found in cosmetics, §household cleaning materials, and as by products of §pollution, such as PCBs and organochlorides. §Elimination of environmental carcinogens would lead §to prevention. Despite this fact, research funding §policies tend to neglect the role of environmental §carcinogens which have been linked to breast cancer §and instead fund research for new screening and §treatment methods.

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Book category Books in English Medicine Medicine: general issues Public health & preventive medicine

• Full title: Breast Cancer Politics
• Author: Palak Raval-Nelson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9783639091540
• ISBN: 363909154X
• ID: 06818253
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
• Weight: 181 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. October 2008

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