Evidence is growing that there may be a connection between certain chemicals in the
environment and the rising incidence of breast cancer in North America. Two recent …

Geographic patterns and time trends for breast cancer suggest there are preventable causes
that may include environmental factors. This article describes the development of new …

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently set out to review the current evidence on links
between breast cancer and the environment. Their conclusions, published in a report issued …

Breast cancer strikes more women throughout the world than any other type of cancer
except skin cancer. In the United States between 1973 and 1998, breast cancer incidence …

For over three decades, evidence has accumulated relating avoidable exposures to
environmental and occupational carcinogens to the escalating incidence of breast cancer in …

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in American women today,
claiming more than 40,000 lives annually. Accumulating evidence suggests that interactions …

▪ Abstract The increasing incidence of breast cancer in the United States and the
international variation in risk have led to speculation that environmental risk factors are an …

and education levels. Given the inevitable exposure misclassification, low-income (and
generally more highly exposed) workers might be expected to show more residual excesses …

Historical data, migrant studies, twin studies, and geographic patterns of breast cancer
incidence around the world suggest that environmental factors play an important role in the …

Laboratory research has shown that numerous environmental pollutants cause mammary
gland tumors in animals; are hormonally active, specifically mimicking estrogen, which is a …