Breast Cancer and the Environment - Report from the IOM

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A report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Breast Cancer and the Environment: A Life Course Approach, examines the existing literature about breast cancer risk posed by various environmental factors, highlights actions that offer potential to reduce risk, and recommends key areas for future research. The report, sponsored by Susan G. Komen for the Cure, . . . → Read More: Breast Cancer and the Environment – Report from the IOM

From Sandra Steingraber

In the final moments of the film Living Downstream, Sandra Steingraber speaks passionately about an emerging environmental human rights movement. This movement is one that recognizes the intimate connection between the health of our environment and the health of our bodies. It is a movement that is attracting people with different interests, occupations and skills—from . . . → Read More: From Sandra Steingraber

Breast Cancer, Plastics, and Prevention

The Breast Cancer Fund is a not-for-profit education and advocacy organization that identifies the environmental and other preventable causes of breast cancer and also advocates for their elimination.

In the linked video on breast cancer and plastic pollution, Breast Cancer Fund’s President and CEO, Jeannie Rizzo, shares what is known about some very . . . → Read More: Breast Cancer, Plastics, and Prevention

On the First Day of…

Breast Cancer Awareness Month… My True Love Gave To Me…Some Lotions That Were Paraben Free.

Parabens are chemicals that are added to cosmetic products to act as preservatives. If you check the ingredients of many commonly used cosmetics, moisturizers, sun screens, baby lotions, hair care products, hair dyes, and shaving creams you’ll often find . . . → Read More: On the First Day of…

“Pink Ribbon Blues,” Book

Paperback includes new Introduction on fundraising controversies and 4-page color insert with images of, and reactions to, the pinking of breast cancer (Oxford, 2012).


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Breast Cancer Consortium

Working across disciplines, constituencies, and nations to change the breast cancer paradigm.

Recent Sulik Interviews

Angelina Jolie and the 'Breast Cancer Gene' Listen to KCRW »

Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer. The New York Times Magazine.

The Story Behind the Pink Ribbon Campaign Sisters Talk Radio

WISH Interview Women's International Summit for Health

Making Cancer About The Patient, Not The Body Part CBS Pittsburgh

Sexy breast cancer campaigns anger many patients USA Today

The perils of pink The Daily

Komen pink campaign creates breast-cancer blues for some Dallas Morning News

A yellow flag for the NFL's pink New York Daily

Gayle Sulik named #7 in SharecareNow’s Top 10 Online Influencers in Breast Cancer

"Breast cancer cancer causes so easily derailed" Philly Inquirer

"Komen Charity Under Microscope for Funding, Science" Reuters

"The Fight Against Cancer - And Abortion? Salon.com

"Susan G. Komen For the Cure defunds Planned Parenthood." In Deep with Angie Coiro

"Amid Breast Cancer Month, Is there Pink Fatigue?" NPR's All Things Considered

"How is Breast Cancer Culture Undermining Women's Health?" America’s Radio News Network

"Pink Ribbon Culture and Breast Cancer" The Kojo Nnamdi Show

"The Big Business of Breast Cancer" 
Marie Claire

"Does Breast Cancer Awareness Month Crowd Out Other Diseases?" Slate

"Pink Inc. Has Many Starting to See Red" The Sacramento Bee

"Get Your Pink Off" Ottawa Citizen

"Komen Pink Ribbons Raise Green and Questions" USA Today

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