The relationship between breast cancer and environmental pollution is being increasingly realized. With one in eight women in the US expected to develop breast cancer in their lifetimes – a dramatic increase – victims of breast cancer, environmental activists and independent medical experts are fighting back. In this Enviro Close-Up, Dr. Cathie Ragovin and Janet Marrinan of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition and Dr. Carlos Sonnenschein of the Tufts University School of Medicine detail the breast cancer-environment link and describe efforts to get at and stop the causes of breast cancer.
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