This is the simple yet highly charged message behind the Toxic Industry Bus Tour, a protest on wheels that highlighted the toxins and carcinogens associated with our consumer lifestyle. N., downtown Minneapolis, where the dangers of dioxin were explained. S., Burnsville, where pesticide use and its relationship with cancer were shown. And last, it went to The Koch Refinery, Highways 55 and 52, Rosemount, where benzene, a gasoline additive, was the culprit. The increase in breast cancer was also brought up, an increased rate even for women with no known risk factors.
Men face an increased chance of developing prostate cancer and testicular cancer.
Half of all Americans will get cancer at some point in their lives. Their goal ultimately is to change the focus of October from Breast Cancer Awareness Month to Cancer Prevention Month. The increase is growing too fast to be accounted for by genetics. Something like only 25 percent of women who get breast cancer have family histories of it. The other 75 percent don't.