In 1950, an American woman's chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime was 1 in 20. Today that risk has more than doubled to 1 in 8. Breast Cancer will strike some 175,000 woman in the United States and kill 43,000. From 1940 through the early 1980's production of synthetic chemicals increased 340 times. Billions of tons of substances that never existed before were released into the environment.
Many pesticides contain synthetic estrogens known as xenoestrogens.
Xenoestrogens, such as organochlorines, are not easily metabolized or excreted form the body. They accumulate in the fatty tissue and may linger for decades. Thirty percent of women who contract breast cancer are affected by the amount of estrogen they produce in their bodies, along with the length of time they produce it. The longer a woman's body is exposed to estrogen, the more she is at risk. These synthetic chemicals can be present in our fatty tissue from early childhood, mimicking estrogen in our bodies, affecting our hormone balance, and increasing our risk of developing breast.