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Advance Praise for The Breast Cancer Prevention Program "The Breast Cancer Prevention Program is a marvelous book--intelligent, courageous, and practical. This authoritative and persuasive work will raise the collective consciousness. It asks, and tells, what you can do for yourself and for your country in a sensible, practical way that melds personal prevention and activism. It provides the tools to reduce one's risk of breast cancer both individually and by political action, making lifesaving information immediately available and simultaneously attempting to influence and alter the way our society deals with breast cancer." --Barbara Seaman, co-founder, National Women's Health Network; contributing editor, Ms. magazine; author of The Doctors' Case Against the Pill, Free and Female, and Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones "All mothers should give this book to their daughters and granddaughters." --Eula Bingham, Ph.D., professor of environmental health, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and former Assistant Secretary of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) "A unique and important book, and a must for all concerned women." --Devra Lee Davis, Ph.D., M.P.H., World Watch Resources Institute "This book is more than a remarkable study. It is a prescription that may save your life." --Studs Terkel Visit us online at http://www.mcp.com/mgr
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The American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute do harm to women while claiming to protect them, charge the authors of this sure-to-be controversial work. Epstein, professor of occupational and environmental medicine at the University of Illinois and author of The Politics of Cancer, and investigative journalist Steinman (Diet for a Poisoned Planet), take the ACS and NCI to task for focusing on diagnosis, treatment and genetic research rather than prevention. They explain numerous medical, dietary and environmental risk factors for breast cancer and describe the steps a woman can take to avoid them. High on their list is estrogen exposure through oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy, but they also document the risks of mammography, breast implants, tamoxifen and common antibiotics and tranquilizers. Other risk factors include smoking and drinking, food contaminants and hazards in the home, community and workplace. Pulling no punches in their analysis of the politics of breast cancer, the authors urge women not only to protect themselves from preventable risk factors, but to cast a critical eye on the "cancer establishment" and to become grassroots cancer-prevention activists. Author tour. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
目录
Introduction |
The Politics of Risk |
Part I Understanding Breast Cancer Risks |
1 Determining Your Risk |
2 Estrogen: The Common Link |
Part II Modern Medicine and Breast Cancer Risks |
3 The Pill: Assessing Your Risks |
4 Estrogen Replacement Therapy: Pros and Cons |
5 The Case Against Mammography |
6 Breast Implants: The Whole Story |
7 The Case Against Chemoprevention |
8 Common Medications and Your Risks |
Part III Dietary and Environmental Breast Cancer Risks |
9 Eating for Health and Longevity |
10 Lifestyle Risk Factors and Coping Strategies |
11 Where You Live |
12 Hazards in the Workplace |
Part IV Finding Out the Truth About Breast Cancer |
The Politics of Breast Cancer: Setting a New Agenda |
Appendix A Resources |
Appendix B Activist Breast Cancer Groups |
Notes |
Glossary |
Index |