The Breast Cancer Prevention Program by Pat Cody Berkeley, California The Breast Cancer Prevention Program , Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., David Steinman, and Suzanne LeVert, Macmillan Publishers, 1997. CAN hurt you. Breast cancer rates continue to climb, with this disease striking more women every year, and yet information about known risks and prevention strategies is not reaching you. The cancer establishment has a vested interest in keeping you focused on early detection, treatment, and basic genetic research rather than on reducing the risks for developing the disease in the first place. A sedentary lifestyle Exposure to household chemicals and neighborhood pollution from chemical plants and hazardous waste sites.
Workplace exposures to a wide range of carcinogens.
Dark hair dyes Once these risks have been described, the authors tell us what we can do about them. Investigative journalist David Steinman has written Diet for a Poisoned Planet , and science writer Suzanne LeVert has written several books on health, including The Woman Doctor's Guide to Menopause . The Breast Cancer Prevention Program is an important contribution to our understanding of breast cancer and a welcome alternative to the mainstream cancer establishment's point of view. Pat Cody is founder and program director of DES Action .