Since 1940, a woman's chance of developing breast cancer has doubled, increasing in tandem with prostate and
childhood cancers, but more significantly, coinciding with the rise of the chemical and nuclear industries.Countering the message that cancer is all genetic, professional chemist and medical doctor Janette Sherman offers a landmark study on the toxins in our environment that cause
cancer-chemical carcinogens, ionizing radiation and
endocrine disrupters-and shows us how we can protect ourselves.The realities are hard to ignore: Asian women have a remarkably low rate of breast cancer, but it increases dramatically when they move to the West.Mammograms, the mainstay of early cancer
This book is an eye-opener. I am not a radical environmentalist, but I do care about what we do to ourselves and our children. This book is about the indiscriminate use of chemicals & radiation and