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Cosmetic chemicals and safer alternatives.(Health Risks and Environmental Issues)
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The cosmetic business is one of the nation's largest and most profitable industries. Cosmetic companies spend more on TV advertising than any other group. Consumers and health care providers should be aware that many toxic synthetic chemicals are used in cosmetics and personal care products without full disclosure on package labeling. The average person is led to believe that product ingredients have been adequately tested and safe for public use. This is far from accurate. (1)
While it is tempting to blame the media and public relations industry for the widespread ...
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High-risk breast cancer predisposition genes.(Feature Article)(Report)
Magazine article from: Advances in Breast Cancer
; Introduction Breast cancer is an important health issue. Worldwide, more than a million women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. In the UK, breast cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer in women. Between...
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Heavy silence: why no one wants to talk about obesity and breast cancer.
Magazine article from: Reason
; Every October, this country celebrates Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But what are we supposed...important controllable risk factor for breast cancer. No, it's not power lines or DDT or...found obesity increases the risk of breast cancer in older women. The National Cancer...
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Personal commitments to achieve awareness and prevention. (breast cancer)
Magazine article from: AORN Journal
; Breast cancer is a health issue that is a minefield of controversy...few of the issues women face when inquiring about breast cancer. In spite of heightened awareness, breast cancer death rates have not decreased in more than 50 years...
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Proclamation 7130 - National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, 1998: October 1, 1998. (Pres. Bill Clinton)(Transcript)
Newspaper article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
; ...millions of us who have lost loved ones to breast cancer, this annual observance brings with...disease. Recent declines in the rate of breast cancer deaths among American women reflect...year alone, another 180,000 cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed, and some 44,000...
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National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.(October )(Editorial)
Magazine article from: AORN Journal
; October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and it is appropriate...estimated number of deaths related to breast cancer is 15% of the total cancer population, and newly diagnosed breast cancer cases are approximately 32% of all...
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Fear-Mongering Sells Drugs.(University of California, San Francisco web site answers questions on breast cancer)
Newspaper article from: HealthFacts
; Now in its 15th year, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month continues to generate...likely to benefit from women's fear of breast cancer. Mainstream media have yet to take...be directly linked to promotion of breast cancer awareness. More women now overestimate...
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 "USA Today (Magazine)")
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Prevention research highest priority. (breast cancer research)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine)
; Breast cancer has reached epidemic proportions in...encouraging that national funding for breast cancer research has increased more than 500...protocols to discovering the causes of breast cancer, about which virtually nothing is known...
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Ignite the promise: 1st Global Advocate Summit on Breast Cancer.
Newspaper article from: The Pulse
; ...for the 1st Global Advocate Summit on Breast Cancer, sponsored by Susan G. Komen for the...short 25 years ago, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was established by Nancy...sister, Susie Komen, who died from breast cancer at the age of 36. Breast cancer was...
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 "The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)")
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Life lessons from Melissa: Melissa Etheridge is now one of thousands of lesbians battling breast cancer. A special report from the women and researchers on the front lines.(Lesbians and breast cancer)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
; ...8 that she was being treated for breast cancer, her message board was bombarded...features a lesbian character with breast cancer. I think we tend to be pretty much in denial about breast cancer until it touches our lives directly...
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Recent advances in the genetics of susceptibility to and treatment of breast cancer.(Feature Article)(Report)
Magazine article from: Advances in Breast Cancer
; ...identification of mutations in the breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, which cause early onset familial breast cancer, limited progress has been made...additional genetic risk factors for breast cancer until very recently. A third major...
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