Breast Cancer research

There's new research about how breast cancer is related to envirnomental factors.
Here's a quote:
"More than 200 chemicals -- many found in urban air and everyday consumer products -- caused breast cancer in animal tests, according to a compilation of scientific reports published today."

Further on it says "Experts say that family history and genes are resonsible for a small percentage of breast cancer cases but that environmental or lifestyle factors such as diet are probably involved in the vast majority. Overall, exposure to mammary gland carcinogens is widespread..."

It seems to contradict the standard knowledge about breast cancer and means that we all need to be more circumspect about the products we consume.

I think it's time to move into a plastic bubble.

I have read a statistic that states half of all men and one-third of all women in the United States will develop some form of cancer during their lifetime. For decades we have been endeavoring to pin down the causes of cancers. We endeavor to avoid a bad diet, bad habits, such as smoking and drinking, we exercise regularly, we are warned to clean-up the environment, etc., to lessen our risks of developing one of the many forms of cancer. Medical science has made great advancements in cancer research. We now know many viruses are linked to cancer development.

The oldest description of human cancer was found in an Egyptian papyri written between 3000-1500 BC. It referred to tumors of the breast. The oldest specimen of a human cancer was found in the remains of a female skull dating back to the Bronze Age (1900-1600 BC).

The History of Cancer

One of the earliest human cancers found in the remains of mummies was a bone cancer suggestive of osteosarcoma. Louis Leakey found the oldest possible hominid malignant tumor in 1932 from the remains of either a Homo erectus or an Australopithecus. This tumor was suggestive of a Burkitt’s lymphoma (although that nomenclature was certainly not in use then). Diseases that we know to be rare cancers today have had a long history.

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