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Health See other Health Articles Title: Report: cause for 'alarm' on possible work-related causes of breast cancer A new summary of the science makes a strong case for occupational links to breast cancer and calls on Congress, regulators and researchers to pay more attention to chemical exposures and other risk factors. “Working Women and Breast Cancer: The State of the Evidence,” is the product of more than two years of work overseen by the San Francisco-based Breast Cancer Fund. A panel of experts reviewed scientific studies, most published in the past 25 years, and found ties between the disease and exposures to solvents; pesticides; tobacco smoke; ionizing radiation and other toxic materials. There also was an association with night shift work. “Research is inadequate, but there is enough to raise alarm about women’s work, occupational exposures and breast cancer,” the report concludes. “At the same time, policies are insufficient to protect worker health.” The report touches on a subject raised by the Center for Public Integrity’s “Unequal Risk” project, launched in June. The series noted that enforceable workplace exposure limits for many toxic substances don’t exist, and those that have been set by the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration in most cases aren’t protective. As the Breast Cancer Fund put it, “women and men in the workplace are routinely exposed to levels of chemicals that would not be allowed in their homes. The relatively lax requirements of some occupational settings lead to both higher levels and longer exposure periods than would otherwise occur in a residential or commercial setting.” Among the report’s recommendations: In 2012, the Center published a story about high rates of breast cancer among female workers in Canada’s automotive plastics industry. The story reported the results of a six-year study that found the women were almost five times as likely to develop the disease, prior to menopause, as women in a control group. The workers had been exposed to a variety of solvents, heavy metals, flame retardants and the hardening agent bisphenol A, used in polycarbonate water bottles and other products. “A lot of these chemicals should be removed from the workplace,” breast cancer survivor Sandy Knight, who worked at two Ontario plastics plants from 1978 to 1998, told the Center. Click here to read this story at the Center for Public Integrity This story is part of Unequal Risk. Workers in America face risks from toxic exposures that would be considered unacceptable outside the job. Click here to read more stories in this blog. Related stories Benzene and worker cancers: 'An American tragedy' Facing lawsuits over deadly asbestos, paper giant launched secretive research program Black lung surges back in coal country Cancer-cluster study seeking to debunk 'Erin Brockovich' has glaring weaknesses Study spotlights high breast cancer risk for plastics workers New battlefront for petrochemical industry: benzene and childhood leukemia Poster Comment: The Captain I'm still waiting for the media to catch up/catch on to one of the main reasons for cancer that's been known for at least a generation-EMF's. One day, people will get the NEWS that EMF's are being emitted from most anything that's electrical-fans, heating pads, microwaves, telephones, clock radios, the list is endless. If the gooberment would stop catering to the cancer industry and the drug industry, who are ONLY out for the money, we could PREVENT at least 50% of the major diseases in the US. 5-10 F farmerwife Everybody is willing to live with it. OF COURSE, we know those things cause cancer, but we'd rather live with the risk than give those things up. No microwaves? No phones? How about wireless internet? A well-respected electrical engineering professor at a local university won't allow wireless internet in his home. He has young children, but he's the only person I know without wireless. 3-2 J smidge Captain, I used to have a working gauss meter (sorry if I misspelled it) and I could find the parts of my home where the EMF was high. Then, I did not place furniture for people to sit there. For example, where the wires all come into the house from the telephone pole, on the outside of the house by the roof, was a high EMF. So, I did not place my child's bunk bed in that corner, because that top bunk would have been in an EMF higher than 0 mg, or whatever. But most of the house was fine. THEN I went for a ride in a new Honda hybrid, you know.....less gas, like a Prius, and the EMF was so high in the backseat, where my daughter would sit (because of the battery of the car) that I did not buy the car. If people are concerned they should buy themselves gauss meters They are not expensive. However when I went online to tell people about the high EMF in the hybrid car, I was accused of working for GM and trying to kill a hybrid car, ha ha. Nothing further from the truth! Just a mom who is trying to avoid toxins and hazards where I can, that's all, and without being a fanatic or lunatic about it. I find that most people do not know what EMFs are. If you've read this much let me say this in regards to breast cancer (and I've lost two beloved friends now to it): take the toxins out of your home. Get rid of as much plastic as you can. Get rid of as much vinyl as you can. Put real plants in your home, as they help to clean the air of toxins. Don't use cheap scented candles. Don't use hair spray all the time, or at least try to find one that is non toxic. Don't drink out of plastic water bottles. Don't microwave in plastic containers, use glass. Go with wood, tile, etc. Try to find pillows and bedding without flame retardant, or at least wash stuff well before you breathe it in all night. Air out your home. Don't eat so much soy (estrogen), and just try to be a little bit more aware than is comfortable. Live well!! 1 bear Let me see. Ionizing radiation. is that not a mammogram? So let me get this straight. A diagnostic tool is also a risk factor for what it diagnoses? Sounds like a cash cow for the medical industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and the mortuary industry. All at the expense of women's health. I think of this involved men it would never be. What do you think? 15-3 Mysticalifer ...This article should have mentioned the most common and most under-addressed Breast Cancer Risk, which is disrupted and deficient sleep. Shift work or bad work hours for women which causes us to break our sleep cycle, reduce total sleep hours, or impair the quality of our sleep because we are attending to sick children or fussy nursing babies at night, we are actually causing a major risk factor for all cancers. This is why so many women feel so damaged by their partner's snoring and why snoring continues to come up in Marriage Counselor's offices -- it destroys your immune function to be awakened at night. This causes poor work performance and makes all the other risk factors on the job, far more damaging. This is why women who do Shift Work such as nurses and caregivers and flight attendants, accumulate serious damage to their immune function and have higher rates of Breast Cancer (and all cancers). It is not enough to "soldier on,"to drink caffeine, and think you should ignore the impact; you are setting yourself up for Cancer and it will come earlier than otherwise, no matter what other workplace cancer factors you are exposed to. If your home-job causes you to have disrupted or deficient sleep, or your day-job causes you to sacrifice sleep to keep your job or to get to it on time, this is as bad as being around smokers or bad lighting or chemicals day after day11-3 . Mysticalifer... Delores: your description of your life and how your body now works is an exact repeat of my past life and body. I am now 69 and have dramatically repaired my sleep issue which as we know, is central to ALL healing and even surviving. You cannot continue this way, there is an end point physically, a point of no return psychologically, and the biological processes which are broken only get worse, so there is every reason to try something new (Einstein: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results."). My #1 Goal every single day is to SATURATE my body-brain with various forms of the Omega 3's. Flooding your body-brain with the correct fats (and totally removing all damaging fats) is the most important first step. True EVOO - Extra Virgin Olive Oil, organic raw coconut oil, and several sources of the Omega 3's (chia/flax/hemp seeds ground, fish oils, krill, etc.) several times per day will make so much difference right away (you must not fudge on quality or quantity and you must remove all other oils) that you will be motivated to try more Food-A-Medicine approaches (and there are many more -- I have reversed multiple complex cancers in the last couple years and no one could tell me this does not work). Our brains are nearly all fat and our brains are starved. Keep in mind, I have suffered multiple TBI's, strokes, and am currently reversing Ocular/Brain Cancer and in the context of having multiple organ failure. Nothing scares me anymore and the proof is in the pudding. What have you got to lose. Use the Internet while you can to research and re-train your thinking and to obtain the necessary raw materials to take back your health. Good luck. Mysticalifer.... Dee, as you gain sleep hours and ween off of the drugs, try adding the medicinal fats. Also, be careful about melatonin for brain-injury and mood dysregulation and Sensitives. For every Inflammatory Food you allow yourself to eat, add on One Anti-Inflammatory Food which gives us the feeling of not depriving ourselves and also gives the visible evidence of improvement with allows us to give up more Inflammatory Foods. It is never too late - I am 69 and finally feel better than I have since early childhood when I first received the first life-changing damage. It has taken two years of concentrated de-toxing from parasites, heavy metals, chemicals, and gluten -- I did not start out believing in all this and resisted every licking step of the way, but being basically a Scientist, I just had to "try and see" and of course, I would never dabble in any one approach - had to do it correctly and sufficiently (the #1 "reason" natural approaches don't work). Basically, Get Up Close And Personal with the best veggies (although the goal is NOT vegetarianism - the goal is dramatically lowers your Inflammatory markers which are the proof of every disease manifestation/cause. Sugar has to go. Carbs have to plummet. Live Foods (what are they - this is where the self-education program comes in - make your body and saving your life the most interesting and exciting and rewarding project of your entire life - put yourself first). You are intelligent enough to design the exact curriculum for yourself and you will have the equivalent of a unique book at the end because reversing all that's wrong is a wonderful story everyone wants to hear (and they may buy it too). I consider my entire health-destroying life only the set-up for my qualifications for what I have accomplished, so not a day was wasted and I am nothing but grateful. I got another chance to figure this all out BEFORE it killed me. You have that same chance. And don't forget: the journey (learning) never ends....it will be fascinating until the day you finally do die with a smile on your face. The point is we need to get rid of the notion that we Arrive. hugs to you stranger, ariel in SW WA my regular email address is my name at yahoo. Ariel Gail MacLean Vicky ...My sister died at the age of 48 from a very aggressive breast cancer....her death was horrible...she worked at GE for many many years making light bulbs,etc. She use to tell me how they would get boxes of parts delivered by people with protective clothing on while the employees(i.e. my sister) would be wearing regular work clothes. The boxes would say " No pregnant women should handle this box"....there is NO breast cancer on either side of our family.No one can convince me she didn't get her cancer at work. You can't fight these huge companies unless you are Erin Brockovich...and even that is stretching it. GE is huge and untouchable. They know what they are doing and getting away with it 5-1 Joe Pace Lets see the abortion to breast cancer studies. When you interrupt the natural process where do all those hormones go and what do they do? 2-4 yorkielady Lol! Is anyone surprised? Solvents? Pesticides! Radiation?!?! Toxins! Duh!!! They only left off one thing ....bras. That's just my own personal belief. Off with those bras ladies! Or find ones that are less confining! Naturally Not Blond ...There are estrogen mimickers in plastic called nanophenols. It's been known for over ten years that exposure nanophenols increases the risk of breast cancer. L 2-2My sister had worked for many years at the manufacturing facility of a well-known company that made eyeglass lenses. She was in the polycarbonate division, and part of that work involved, as I understand it, dipping the lenses in an acid bath to remove any debris and solidify them. (Years before this, she had worked in a facility that made molded plastics and she operated one of the plastic-injection machines. My father worked in the same facility, though as a machinist repairing molds.) She developed breast cancer in 2011 and was treated for it (chemo/radiation). She died last year, but not from a recurrence. Some of the former coworkers from the lens manufacturer (which closed in 2004 or so) who came to her memorial said many of the people they had worked with had died from cancer. It just makes me wonder: Is there any truly safe way to create anything from ancient sunlight? Are we really meant to be hauling this stuff up out of the ground? I don't think there's any easy solution on this; I and just about everyone I know drives a car! And the keyboard I am typing on...plastic. JAMESL11... The brca is a direct result of past inbreeding. There is no question about this whatsoever. It's an inherited disease, and provable. And let's keep it in perspective, 99% of human disease and defects seem to be inherited and the result of inbreeding, it was the norm for much of human history and has caused great harm. So reports like this with no substance should be taken with a grain of salt, and instead we should focus on the real culprit. It's not the water, no matter how many quacks like to report that it is. Genetic testing and early identification of risk is the answer, and that's what is going to save the women, 300,000 of whom die every year from this horrible disease. Thumb me down all you want, but sooner or later the truth will be accepted, and we will do what is necessary to save these women's lives. 1-4 Hello 7 hours ago 1 0 For people interested in possible natural treatments for all types of cancer or to possibly prevent a recurrence they may like to check out Salvestrols.(And not the discrediting Wikipedia article about Salvestrols. The Salvestrols used in Salvestrol platinum pills do not use resveratrol.) Professor Burke of Aberdeen University discovered that all cancer cells have CYP1B1 enzyme. Professor Potter at De Montfort University discovered natural compounds found in fruits vegetables and herbs that transform CYP1B1 enzyme into anti-cancer agents. He named them Salvestrols. Burke and Potter got together with Anthony Daniels and created Salvestrol supplements. Google 'salvestrol case studies' and google 'Salvestrol Platinum' pills. Salvestrols can be used alone or with surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. For children under 12 they need to consult a physician first. Why hasn't anyone heard about this? This all goes back to the days of Rockefeller. The book Rockefellers Medicine Men by Richard Brown showed how in the early days of chemical medicine Rockefeller used his money and power to gain influence and control over universities and they even taught their doctors to ridicule and attempt to edge out any and all other medical competition not under their control. And it did not matter if the natural methods of healing worked. Hence the existance of Quackwatch and attitudes similar to them. Even wikipedia has bias since most of the references are from big phama funded studies. As for vitamin c the mayo clinic and nih studies were poorly done, but are still used as an example by big pharma to discredit orthomoloecular (vitamin therapy) medicine. Ofcourse the FDA and others have business ties with big pharma which also have lobbying powers to control the government laws. Chemical drug big pharma typically have more contacts and much more money to advertise for their drugs compared to natural healing arts Independent scientists cannot afford large scale clinic trials which cost millions of dollars (or more). Only large pharma companies can afford the large clinical trials. The pharma companies will not invest into natural non patented herbs because only patented drugs give them the few years to make a profit and get back all the money that was invested into the large scale clinical trials. Mainstream medicine only takes seriously large scale clinical trials the can only be afforded by large pharma companies. Some more books: Rockefellers Medicine Men by Richard Brown, Salvestrols: Natures Defense Against Cancer by Schaefer and Primal Panacea by Levy MD For a way to measure all types of cancer from home people can google the Red Drop Blood cancer test or the Navarro Clinic HCG Test Well the point I am trying to make is that it is not so black and white. Both the natural and chemical healing arts exist for cancer and it is up to each person to do their own research so they are not one sided to find out what is best for them because everyone is different and responds differently to different things. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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