All of these risk factors are things we have control over. We can reduce our exposure to pesticides and carcinogenic chemicals.(2-4) We can test for and supplement with iodine, selenium, and vitamin D.(20-26) We can avoid synthetic hormones that increase risk of breast cancer and use safer bioidentical human hormones instead. (13-14)
The Breast Cancer-Pesticide LinkIn 2007, 178,480 women were diagnosed with breast cancer and 40,460 women died of breast cancer in the United States.
Considerable study has been devoted to proving a link between pesticides and breast cancer. Could there be such a link?
Pesticides Banned in Israel and Breast Cancer Rates FallThe answer is yes. The pesticide-breast cancer link was clearly shown in research from Israel that linked three pesticides found in dairy products to increased cancer in mice. After a public outcry in 1978, the Israeli government was forced to ban the three pesticides, benzene hexachloride, DDT, and lindane.(5,6)
After the banning of these pesticides in Israel, breast cancer-mortality rates (which had increased every year for 25 years) dropped nearly 8 per cent for all age groups and dropped more than a thirty-three percent for women ages 25-34 in 1986. (5,6)
The Breast Cancer-Iodine Link
Dr. B.A. Eskin published 80 papers over 30 years researching iodine and breast cancer, and he reports that iodine deficiency causes breast cancer and thyroid cancer in humans and animals.(7-11) Iodine deficiency is also known to cause a pre-cancerous condition called fibrocystic breast disease. Ghent published a paper in 1993, which showed iodine supplementation works quite well to reverse and resolve fibrocystic changes of the breast, and I have found this true in my clinical experience with patients and family members over the past ten years. (7-11)
The Synthetic Hormone-Breast Cancer Link
A study published in the October 2010 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reviewed 11 years of data from the Women's Health Initiative Study. (13,14)
Dr.Chlebowski concluded that the synthetic Prempro Pill used in the study increases breast cancer, and these cancers tend to be the more aggressive. As might be expected, there was also increased breast-cancer mortality in the synthetic-hormone group. Note: PremPro is made by Wyeth (Pfizer) and is a combination of a horse estrogen- Premarin plus progestin-Provera (medroxyprogesterone).
Three previous studies showed the same finding, that progestins cause breast cancer.
1) The Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project (BCDDP) had an increase in breast cancer when they used a progestin.
2) The Swedish Record Review had increase in breast cancer with a progestin.
3) The Million Woman Study had increase in breast cancer with progestin use.
In all these studies, they were using progestins along with the estrogen, and that's why they got those results.
Denial is Sometimes the Best Treatment
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