No More Breast Cancer Campaign

No More Breast Cancer is a campaign group dedicated to exposing knowledge in support of the fact that the huge increases in breast cancer we are experiencing are not simply due to lifestyle factors as purported in both media and government led messages. Whilst issues such as smoking, weight and sedentary lifestyles may have an effect these are not the main cause of the cancer increases we have seen of late.

The group want to raise public and government awareness of the dangers lurking all around us in the products we use every day and the environments we live in that may play a bigger role in contributing to hormonal based cancers than has so far been acknowledged.

The site is well formatted with heaps of useful and accessible information about breast cancer and why prevention is more than detection. Rather, prevention starts with the realisation that we cannot continue to live with the levels of toxicity we have become used to without disastrous consequences.

From: No More Breast Cancer Campaign, News 29Jul08
Downing street petition (from 18Jun08 to 17Oct08)

"Sign up to push PM to ask leading breast cancer charities why they don't acknowledge environmental and occupational risk factors.

Our Campaign Co-ordinator, Helen Lynn, has organised a petition on the Downing Street website. The reason for this petition is that the Government and leading cancer charities almost exclusively focus on lifestyle factors, improving early detection, and treatment for breast cancer, which has not stopped the rising incidence of the disease in this country. Lifestyle changes cannot prevent a woman getting breast cancer whilst cancer causing agents and endocrine disruptors are allowed to build up in the environment and our bodies.

We need an inclusive strategy on breast cancer which encompasses environmental and occupational exposures as well as early detection and treatment. One that, at its heart, supports the precautionary principle with a view to decreasing or, where possible, eliminating exposure to chemicals and substances already found to be linked to this disease.

Our petition question is based on the fact that the major breast cancer charities do not highlight environmental links as a risk factor in breast cancer when they act as advisors to the Government. Acknowledgment of this link by the Government, leading cancer charities and the medical establishment is vital to push us to the forefront of eradicating this largely preventable disease."

Further Info:
No More Breast Cancer / Soil Association