About Know Breast Cancer

“What would happen if an army of one- breasted women descended upon Congress and demanded that the use of carcinogenic, fat-stored hormones in beef-feed be outlawed?”
— Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals, Spinsters Ink/ Aunt Lute Books, 1980

Know Breast Cancer (KBC) is a non-profit women’s- ways- of- knowing organization dedicated to translating research on the known, probable and possible causes of breast cancer into common everyday language.

Our goal is to inform women about lifestyle changes that can help stop breast cancer before it can start …. ever or never again.

Please join with us as we help change the conversation from fear to knowledge.

Over 90% of Breast Cancer is Preventable

Since genetics is involved in less than 10% of breast cancer cases, we can say that 90% -100% of breast cancer is somehow preventable. International research now shows that there are many causes of breast cancer that we can eliminate from our lives.

7 easy ways to help stop breast cancer from happening to you

Using both evidence-based research and a women’s ways of knowing approach, we have searched the literature, interviewed the experts, spoken with many breast cancer veterans and have come up with these seven ways to help prevent breast cancer:

Raise Vitamin D3 blood levels to 60-80 ng/ml with supplements
Avoid birth control drugs and estrogen replacement drugs
Use safe hair straightening and conditioning products
Know about mammograms and find safer alternatives
Filter water for drinking, cooking and bathing
Eat low estrogen foods & manage estrogen levels
Detox from alcohol, sugar and cigarettes

Learn more about the 7 Easy Ways

US Has Highest Breast Cancer Rates in the World

The United States continues to have the highest breast cancer rates in the world. This year alone, 40,000 mothers, sisters, wives, daughters and friends will die from breast cancer and 190,000 more will receive a first diagnosis of invasive breast cancer.

Know Breast Cancer’s 7 Easy Ways can help turn these rates around.

Breaking News!!!! Breast Cancer is becoming a Younger Woman’s Disease.

Younger women are being diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in unprecedented numbers. Women under 50 now receive more than 30% of all invasive breast cancer diagnoses in the U.S. each year.

Know Breast Cancer’s 7 Easy Ways can help turn these rates around

Breast Cancer is big business

Breast cancer screening, breast cancer prevention drugs and breast cancer treatment constitute an expanding multi-billion dollar a year business. To continue to grow, the breast cancer industry needs more women to have more mammograms, take more drugs and have more surgeries. .
For decades, women have depended on the industry (pharmaceutical companies, breast health clinics, oncology centers, the American Cancer Society and other non-profit organizations that depend on major corporate donations) to tell us what is best for us. And so the breast cancer business has continued to thrive as more and more women have continued to develop invasive breast cancer.

Know Breast Cancer’s 7 Easy Ways can help turn these rates around.