Breast Cancer Politics

ISBN-13: 9783639091540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 128 str.

Palak Raval-Nelson

Opis

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.

O autorze

Raval-Nelson Palak Palak has been working in the Environmental Public Health field for 13 years.She is the Chief of Food Protection for Philadelphia.Palak also teaches Environmental & Occupational Health. She has earned a PhD and an MPH.Her passion is working to improve environmental public health.She and her husband Daryl have two sons Shane and Shon.