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Article: Breast Cancer: The Link With Pesticides
- Article from:
- Women & Environments International Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright WEED Foundation Fall 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Introduction
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women throughout the world, and it exacts a tragic toll: an estimated 1.15 million women got breast cancer, and 411,000 died from it in 2002. There are an estimated 4.4 million women alive who have had breast cancer diagnosed within the last 5 years.
Breast cancer incidence rates continue to climb in all age groups almost everywhere. Over the period from the 1970s to the 1 990s reported breast cancer incidence rose 30-40 percent in most countries, but more rapidly in developing countries.
Some reviewers have linked this trend to synthetic chemicals, noting that the increasing incidence of breast cancer has paralleled the ...