October is breast cancer awareness month, and alongside the ubiquitous pink ribbons is the usual advice for prevention: Don’t smoke, focus on diet and exercise, and do regular exams. But there’s a major opportunity for breast cancer prevention that’s often overlooked — preventing exposure to harmful chemicals. These are generally small exposures, but research indicates that they’re adding up to increase cancer rates in big ways, and even to increase breast cancer risk for our daughters and granddaughters. Where are the public awareness campaigns about these statistics during breast cancer awareness month? And more importantly, why are products capable of raising our breast cancer risk so significantly still on the market?

Source: The Guardian October 19, 2023 15:32 UTC