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Local ProjectsFor more than thirty years, groups of women throughout the United States have noticed that too many women on their street, in their neighborhood or within their town, were being diagnosed with breast cancer. “Is it something in our water, our air, our workplace or where?” has been their cry. Many times these groups have organized and demanded answers from local, state and national governments or from industries that may have once polluted or that continue to pollute the neighborhood. A national study by Silent Spring Institute found that leaders of grassroots breast cancer advocacy groups want to know how the environment contributes to cancer. These pro prevention groups strongly support environmental research and precautionary public health policies. Know Breast Cancer is offering the 1st Annual Bra'Rathon: The North Shore Challenge in Manchester by the Sea, Massachusetts, November 7, 2009. The Bra'Rathon is a fun way to help women begin to learn practical and active ways to lower their risk of developing breast cancer. We hope that this educational model will be successful and will be copied by other local breast cancer prevention groups nation-wide.
2006 Consensus Statement on Breast Cancer The 2006 Consensus Statement on Breast Cancer, developed by the Breast Cancer Working Group of the Collaborate on Health and the Environment , states that it is critical that we take public health measures to limit our exposure to toxic chemicals in our air, water, food and other consumer goods. More than fifty community, state and national pro prevention breast cancer organizations have now endorsed this consensus statement. The National Breast Cancer Prevention Project wants to urge local and state chapters of Susan Komen for the Cure, Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and the American Cancer Society to also sign the 2006 Consensus Statement on Breast Cancer. It is time for all breast cancer groups to join together and work to stop cancer before it starts. Contact Us Please contact us if you would like to help bridge the gap between these mainstream breast cancer awareness organizations and the fifty pro-prevention groups who have signed the landmark 2006 Consensus Statement on Breast Cancer.
A 1989 study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found that breast cancer rates were higher in the 339 U.S. counties with hazardous waste sites and groundwater contamination than in other areas. However, relatively few epidemiological studies – looking at the illness across various populations – have been conducted www.Silentspring.org
"...the Silent Spring team found that for the years 1982-1992, breast cancer incidence was 21 per cent higher on Cape Cod than in the rest of Massachusetts. These higher rates could not be adequately explained by know risk factors, suggesting that environmental factors could be playing a role. Women who had lived longer on Cape Cod were at higher risk for breast cancer."
Could this area’s septic systems, nearby wells and related municipal water supplies be a major risk factor contributing to the high invasive breast cancer rates throughout the 1st Essex-Middlesex Senate District? High breast cancer rates found in Essex. Manchester –Is it the water?
"...if synthetic hormones like those used in HRT are now understood to increase the risk of cancer and other diseases, shouldn’t we be sure to test the effect of other endocrine disrupters before letting them into our live?"
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