Media releases and articles - No More Breast Cancer campaign
- 15/5/08 - Eco Woman of the Year nominates Breast Cancer UK for prize money
- May 2008 - Major US concerns about Bisphenol A but UK Government isn't worried
- 14/4/08 - Euro-Parliament Identifies Environmental Causes Of Cancer
- 18/5/07 - No More Breast Cancer Campaign Rachel Carson Centenary Event, 'Contaminated without consent: breast cancer and our chemical body burden – pesticides, plastics, pollutants'
- 16/5/07 - New scientific review in the journal Cancer links environmental pollutants with breast cancer
- 27/4/07 - Climate change will mean cancer chemicals back in circulation
- March 2007 - Health workers take up the No More Breast Cancer Campaign (Community Practitioner, Vol 80, No 3)
- March/April 2007 - Contaminated without consent: tackling pollutants in the breast cancer epidemic (Resurgence magazine No 241)
- 26/11/06 - No More Breast Cancer gets off to a great start at Paris gathering
- 22/11/06 - Mastectomy rates jump 44 per cent in fifteen years
- 29/09/06 - The best-kept secret in Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- 28/09/05 - 'Women expose the silence that kills' (UK Working Group on the Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer - pdf)
Media releases - other
- 11/4/08 - Success For Green MEP As Euro-Parliament Identifies Environmental Causes Of Cancer In New ‘Task Force’ Proposals (www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk)
- 1/4/08 - Breast Cancer Care comment on new research in to the effect of environmental factors on breast cancer (www.politics.co.uk)
- 12/07 - What's preventing prevention? (WECF)
- 14/4/07 - Increase in breast cancer linked to pollution levels (The Sunday Herald)
- 01/12/06 - Civil society denounces deal concerning the EU's chemicals policy reform (pdf)
- 09/11/06 - REACH will not protect health unless it deals with the danger of low exposure, say scientists (doc)
News – No More Breast Cancer Campaign
- 30/7/08 - Handy information on toxic chemicals
- 29/7/08 - Downing Street Petition
- 8/10/07 - Government called upon to extend list of risk factors for breast cancer
- 14/9/07 - No More Breast Cancer Campaign Rachel Carson Centenary Event 28/9/07
- 13/9/07 - Hugo Fenwick’s marathon for No More Breast Cancer Campaign successful
- 28/8/07 - Hugo Fenwick will run marathon for the No More Breast Cancer Campaign
- 30/6/07 - Submission to the government’s forthcoming Cancer Reform Strategy
- 19/6/07 - New funders
- 02/11/06 - Rhona Damant's Legacy
Recent headlines
- May 08 - Contaminated without consent (WI LIfe)
- 14/4/08 - Keep abreast of threats (Metro)
- 2/4/08 - Campaigners urge ban on cancer-link chemicals (The Guardian)
- 4/12/07 - £370m cancer care review is unveiled (The Indpendent)
- 3/12/07 - Brown pledges better cancer care for all (The Independent)
- 3/12/07 - Government to look at sunbeds and cigarette machines (The Times)
- 3/12/07 - Cancer reform strategy (Department of Health)
- 5/10/07 - Is your make-up killing you? (Daily Mail)
- 11/9/07 - Is your beauty regime damaging your health? (The Guardian)
- 22/5/07 -
Beijing blames pollutants for rise in killer cancers (The Guardian)
- 19/5/07 - Time is the real danger (The Times)
- 23/4/07 - Support in the US for Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act (S.579/H.R.1157) – (National Breast Cancer Coalition website)
- 19/12/06 - Hereditary toxins spur scientific concerns (Women's e-news)
- 13/12/06 - REACH: EP rubberstamps weak deal with no guarantee of greater protection from hazardous chemicals (Greenviews:European Green Infopool)
- 13/12/06 - Landmark EU chemical law passed - REACH (BBC News, UK)
- 01/12/06 - Chemical Cocktail info (BEUC-EU Consumers Assoc)
- 09/11/06 - Danger: Chemical hazards (The Guardian)
- 06/11/06 - How toxic is your body? (Daily Mail)
- 03/11/06 - Breast cancer may be linked to mother's childhood: Chemical exposure in past generations could affect present ones, scientists say (Oakland Tribune )
- 18/10/06 - Concern over cancer group's link to drug firm (The Guardian)
- 18/10/06 - Study links pollutants to rise in breast cancer (The Independent)
- 18/10/06 - Gender-bending chemicals linked to breast cancer rise (The Daily Telegraph)
- 18/10/06 - Study links pollutants to rise in breast cancer (The Independent)
- 18/10/06 - Gender-bending chemicals linked to breast cancer rise (The Daily Telegraph)
- 18/10/06 - Chemical cocktail blamed for soaring breast cancer rate (Daily Mail)
- 3/10/06 - Don't dismiss possible links between chemicals and cancer (letters) (The Independent)
- 29/09/06 - Riddle of frightening breast cancer epidemic (London Lite)
- 29/09/06 - Breast cancer cases rise 80% since 1970s (quotes Breast Cancer UK) (The Independent)
- 26/09/06 - Is your bubble bath safe? (Daily Mail)
- 12/09/06 - Babies in womb exposed to 'gender-bending' chemicals (the Daily Mail)
- 08/08/06 - Anti-miscarriage drug doubles breast cancer risk in daughters (The Guardian)
- 20/07/06 - Disbelief as government backs voluntary 'dialogue' between farmers and neighbours about pesticides (press release, Pesticide Action Network)
- 12/07/06 - Crop spraying and the health of residents and bystanders (press release, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution)
- 21/03/06 - Scientists warn parents on pesticides and plastics (The Guardian)
- 05/03/06 - Chasing the Cancer Answer (CBC programme 'Marketplace')
Journals and reviews
- Breast cancer and exposure to hormonally active chemicals: An appraisal of the scientific evidence (www.chemicalshealthmonitor.org) April 2008
- State of the Evidence 2008:Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment (Breast Cancer Fund) March 2008
- Scientific review in the journal Cancer links environmental pollutants with breast cancer
- Bisphenol A May Trigger Human Breast Cancer (Chemical & Engineering News, 06/12/06)
- NMBC
supports new WWF report on environmental contaminants and breast cancer,
18/10/06
(download WWF report) - The sensitivity of the child to sex steroids: possible impact of exogenous estrogens (Human Reproduction Update, May 2006 doi:10.1093/humupd/dml018)
- Occupation and breast cancer by Professor Andrew Watterson, Occupational and Environmental Health Research Group, University of Stirling; email a.e.watterson @ stir.ac.uk (published by New York Academy of Sciences, 2006)
- Pesticides as endocrine disruptors - Disrupting Life's Messages (The Latest Hormone Science Pt. 4, Rachel's Environment and Health News No. 753, first published February 2002)
- Environmental oestrogens, cosmetics and breast cancer (Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 121-143, 2006)
- Regulation of endocrine-disrupting chemicals: Critical overview and deficiencies in toxicology and risk assessment for human health (Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 145-165, 2006)
Headline archive
- 17/11/05 - EU Parliament votes to phase out hazardous chemicals but allows huge knowledge gaps on safety (EEN)
- 10/10/05 - 'Time to broaden the breast cancer debate' - response from UK Working Group (The Guardian)
- 04/10/05 - Environment and Public Health Committee vote to protect Vulnerable Groups (EEN)
- 03/10/05 - 'No reason for alarm over pollution risk in breast cancer' say major UK charities (The Guardian)
- 03/10/05 - 'The Big See' (WEN)
- 29/09/05 - 'The Big See' campaign (UNISON)
- 28/09/05 - 'Women expose the silence that kills' (EEN)
- 28/09/05 - 'Authorities accused of failing to tackle causes of breast cancer' (The Guardian)