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Breast Cancer and Environmental Toxics

Environmental Risks and Breast Cancer, Vassar College

 

 

REFERENCES

State of the Evidence: What is the connection between chemicals and breast cancer? 2010
http://www.breastcancerfund.org/media/publications/state-of-the-evidence/

The Collaborative on Health and the Environment's database of toxicants and diseases
http://database.healthandenvironment.org/

Breast Cancer: Society Shapes an Epidemic. Anne Kasper & Susan Ferguson, 2002.

 

Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic. Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey, & Anne Wordsworth, 2007

 

Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know And Don't Know About Cancer. Robert Proctor, 1996.
 

Making Better Environmental Decisions: An Alternative to Risk Assessment. Mary O’Brien, 2000.


Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry. Stacy Malkan, 2007.

 

Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story. Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, & John Peter Meyers, 1997.

 

Silent Spring. Rachel Carson, 1962
 

The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-being. Nena Baker, 2009.

 

The Secret History of the War on Cancer. Devra Davis, 2009.

 

Sandra Steingraber:

  • Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis. 2011.
  • Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment. 1997, revised 2010.
  • Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood. 2001.

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