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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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With breast cancer rates soaring, Life's Delicate Balance defines and documents many causes highlighting means to prevention.
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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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Breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men are the most common cancers and second leading causes of cancer death in Americans.
This disease presently causes more deaths than cancers of the colon, prostate and breast combined.
Causes and Prevention Doctors can seldom explain why one person gets breast cancer and another doesn't.
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Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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Breast cancer strikes 1 in 9 women in the United States over their lifetimes, and is the second leading cause of cancer death in women after lung cancer.
Breast cancer is second only to lung cancer in the number of cancer deaths it causes in this country.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Breast Cancer Research (Scotland) Breast Cancer Research Scotland is a registered charity (number SC024834) which raises funds throughout the UK to investigate the causes of breast cancer and translate new laboratory discoveries into advances in treatment for patients.
Other causes of breast cancer may be related to defects in the immune system or genetic mutations.
Their fears were abundantly justified when a recent study concluded that a popularly prescribed synthetic estrogen and progesterone pill can cause increased risks of breast and reproductive cancers as well as a danger of blood clots while offering no protection against heart disease.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Breast Cancer Fund identifies - and advocates for elimination of - the environmental and other preventable causes of the disease.
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