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article: drugs, pesticides and radiation causes of breast cancer
> http://www.ecotalk.org/BreastCancer.htm Pharmaceuticals, Pesticides,
> and Radiation Cause Breast Cancer... While Wealthy
> Non-Profits and Feds Protect Industry by Lynn Landes 10/23/02 They’re
> good girls and boys. Racing for the cure. Crying for the cameras.
> Sharing their pain. Wearing that crown of thorns like a halo. Nice
> folks. And
> aren't they "better people" for just having "survived" breast
> cancer? Or...are they being played for suckers? Conned by a clever
> marketing strategy
> that makes heroes out of victims, and saints out of sinners. Racing
> for the
> cure, but running from the cause. Most of the well-financed breast
> cancer organizations make little or no mention
> of the non-genetic causes of breast cancer. Go to their websites. Read
> their
> literature. These organizations don't focus on the environmental and
> pharmacological causes of this epidemic because it's a dank dark alley
> that
> leads right to their corporate sponsors.
> "National Breast Cancer Awareness Month was established by Zeneca, a
> bioscience
> company with sales of $8.62 billion in 1997. Forty-nine percent of
> Zeneca's 1997
> profits came from pesticides and other industrial chemicals, and 49%
> were from
> pharmaceutical sales, one-third (about $1.4 billion's worth) of which
> were
> cancer treatment drugs," says the Green Guide, a publication of
> Mothers & Others
> for a Livable Planet. Zeneca also makes Tamoxifen, "a known
> carcinogen" according to the National
> Institutes of Health (NIH). After only a few years of exposure,
> Tamoxifen can
> actually cause breast cancer, says a 1999 study from Duke University.
> "There is
> strong evidence of Tamoxifen’s toxicity, including high risks of
> uterine,
> gastrointestinal and fatal liver cancer," reports The Cancer
> Information
> Network, adding, "The Breast Cancer Prevention Trial (BCPT) conducted
> by the
> National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) "found
> that women
> taking Tamoxifen had more than twice the chance of developing uterine
> cancer
> compared with women on placebo."
> General Electric is a huge global conglomerate that provides all kinds
> of
> products and services. GE also owns health clinics that use GE
> equipment that
> can expose patients to different types of radiation. GE makes
> ultrasound,
> magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and mammography machines - a known
> cause of
> breast cancer in younger women. In addition, there are 91 nuclear
> power plants
> based on the GE design operating in 11 countries," says GE on its
> website.
> Nuclear power plants are a known source of radiation leakage.
> Radiation is a "complete carcinogen" says Dr. Peter Montegue, in his
> 1997 5-part
> series, "The Truth About Breast Cancer." Montegue writes, "Very few
> things have
> the ability to initiate cancer AND promote it AND make it progress.
> Things that
> can do this are called "complete carcinogens." By analyzing 50 years
> of U.S.
> National Cancer Institute data, Dr. Jay Gould, director of the
> Radiation and
> Public Health Project, Inc., says, "of the 3,000-odd counties in the
> United
> States, women living in about 1,300 nuclear counties (located within
> 100 miles
> of a reactor) are at the greatest risk of dying of breast cancer." GE
> is also a
> contributor to many efforts to "battle" breast cancer.
> Other corporations, such as Rhone-Poulec, Rohm & Hass, Eli Lilly
> Novartis,
> American Cyanamid, and Dupont, have also profiteered from both sides
> of this
> manufactured epidemic.
> In addition to these duplicitous industries and their heavily financed
>
> non-profit partners-in-deception, is the National Institutes of Health
> (NIH).
> Its cozy relationship to (and increasing financial reliance on)
> business and
> industry through organizations like the Centers for Disease Control
> Foundation,
> is a blatant conflict of interest. Not surprisingly, the NIH website
> for breast
> cancer research is very similar to research funded by the top breast
> cancer
> organizations... it's all about detection, cures, and genetics. Of the
> 14 areas
> of research listed, only 2 studies relate to the links between breast
> cancer and
> non-genetic influences. And those studies dismiss the notion of any
> connection. The NIH studies are grossly misleading. On June 26, 2002,
> the Centers for Disease Control (CDC, part of NIH) issued a
> news release that said, "Study Finds No Association Between Oral
> Contraceptive
> Use and Breast Cancer For Women 35 and Over." Actually the study did
> not include
> women older than 65 or younger than 35, which begs the question, "Why
> not?" What
> also makes this study hard to swallow are the results of the study on
> Hormone
> Replacement Therapy (HRT) two weeks later. On July 9, 2002 (and after
> more than
> forty years of widespread use) the NIH announced that HRT (low dose
> estrogen
> plus progestin), can cause an increase in heart attacks, strokes,
> blood clots,
> and ...breast cancer. So, are we to believe that the low dose
> estrogen-progestin combination is okay
> for contraception, but not for menopause?
> Actually, there was no difference between the outcome of those two
> studies,
> admitted Dr. Bob Spirtas, of the National Institute of Child Health
> and
> Development (part of NIH), in a conversation with this writer. A
> woman's risk
> for breast cancer is 16% higher at the time she is taking oral
> contraceptives or
> HRT and for five years after she stops, at which point the risk is 3%
> or
> "statistically insignificant," said Dr. Spirtas.
> Well, that certainly wasn't the message conveyed by the NIH, which
> seemed to
> give oral contraceptives a clean bill of health. The NIH has also come
> to the rescue of the chemical industry. On May 15, 2001,
> the NIH announced, "DDT, PCBs Not Linked to Higher Rates of Breast
> Cancer, an
> Analysis of Five Northeast Studies Concludes." However, the highly
> regarded
> authors of OurStolenFuture.com point out that most studies are flawed,
> "The
> problem is that DDE and the commonly-studied most persistent PCBs act
> as an
> anti-androgen and anti-estrogens, respectively, not estrogens.
> Findings that
> indicate these contaminants are not associated with breast cancer risk
> are
> completely irrelevant to the hypothesis that xenoestrogens may induce
> breast
> cancer." It's pretty clear. We're firing blanks in this "war against
> breast cancer."
> While industries release toxic chemicals, unsafe drugs, and radiation,
> they also
> fund government agencies and large non-profits who provide effective
> "cover" for
> their devastating activities.
> I call it the Breast Cancer Money-Go-Round. Links:
> http://www.preventcancer.com/
> http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r571.html
> http://dukemednews.duke.edu/news/article.php?id=354
>
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