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Background: Breast Cancer Awareness Month See Also: Read about the Cancer Industry Tour of downtown San Francisco
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Help Stop Cancer Where It Starts! Over the last half century, cancer rates in the United States have soared. Among women, breast cancer is particularly deadly, and the lifetime risk has risen from 1 in 20 women in 1960 to 1 in 8 women today. Circumstantial evidence clearly implicates increased environmental contamination by industry and big agriculture as the major culprit. The corporate response to this epidemic is "National Breast Cancer Awareness Month" (NBCAM, every October), a concept and series of events orchestrated and financed largely by the pharmaceutical industry which has no investment or interest in environmental protection or public health. The causes of breast cancer are not only never mentioned at NBCAM events, but polluters are often invited participants. The most visible and widely publicized event is the "Race for the Cure," sponsored in over a hundred American cities by the Susan G. Komen Foundation which masquerades as a "grassroots" organization. Not surprisingly, the NBCAM and Race for the Cure message simply urges support for cancer research and widely available mammography. Greenaction, a member of the Toxic Links Coalition and participant in theannual "Cancer Industry Tour," (October 30, this year) is sharing with you the AlterNet article about the Komen Foundation, which uncovers the political and financial ties of a business getting rich by marketing breast cancer. Join with Greenaction, the Toxic Links Coalition, and concerned people everywhere to Stop Cancer Where It Starts, by stopping pollution that causes cancer! |
