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January 27, 2006
State of the Evidence 2006: What Is the Connection Between the Environment and Breast Cancer
Posted at January 27, 2006 10:06 AM in Health/Fitness .
The Breast Cancer Fund has released its 2006 State of the Evidence and the news is bleak. Less than one out of every 10 cases of breast cancer occur in women born with a genetic predisposition for the disease, and as many as half of all breast cancers occur in women who have no known risk factors for the disease.
On top of that, breast cancer rates have been climbing steadily in the United States and other industrialized countries since the 1940s, amounting to more than one million cases per year worldwide. In the United States, a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer has nearly tripled during the past four decades. This State of the Evidence report demonstrates that a significant body of scientific evidence links exposure to radiation and synthetic chemicals to an increased risk of breast cancer and summarizes the findings of more than 350 experimental, epidemiologic and ecological studies.
Read the press release on State of the Evidence 2006 »
Download the Report:
Executive Summary (202 KB)
Full Report (670 KB)