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"Mammo-graphic densities as a criterion for entry to a clinical trial of breast cancer prevention. Br. J. Cancer 72, 476-479. 152. Jones, L. W., and Demark-Wahnefried, W. (2006). Diet, exercise, and complementary therapies after primary treatment for cancer. Lancet Oncol. 7, 1017-1026. 153. Carmichael, A. R. (2006). Obesity and prognosis of breast cancer. Obes. Rev. 7, 333-340. 154. Chlebowski, R. T., Aiello, E., and McTiernan, A. (2002). Weight loss in breast cancer patient management. J. Clin. Oncol. 20, 1128-1143. 155. Demark-Wahnefried, W., and Rock, C. L. (2003)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Additional sources of information on carcinogenic ingredients include the 1980 Science Action Coalition's Consumer's Guide to Cosmetics; my own books, including the 1974 Legislation of Consumer Product Safety and the 1995 T/ie Safe Shopper's Bible; the 1998 Tlte breast cancer prevention Program; the 2005 Unreasonable Risk of Cosmetics and Personal Care Products; and the non-profit Cancer Prevention Coalition press releases and citizen petitions, an association of which I am the current chairman." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Chen S, Phung S, Hur G, Kwok S, Ye J, and Oh SR. breast cancer prevention with phytochemicals in mushrooms. Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research, vol. 46, Abs. 5186. Dufheld-Lillico AJ, Shureiqu I, Lippman SM. Can selenium prevent colorectal cancer? A signpost from epidemiology. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2004;92:1645-1647. Lull C, Wichers HJ, Savelkoul HF. Anti-inflammatory and immunomodulating properties of fungal metabolites. Mediators Inflamm. 2005 Jun 9;2005(2):63-80. Phung S., Ye Jingjing, Hur G., Kwok S., Lui K. and Chen S." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Although we will be addressing this in the hormone and conventional medicine sections of this chapter, there are several lines of evidence and logic that support the conclusion that not only is soy safe, but there is actually a relationship between increased soy intake and breast cancer prevention. Several studies concluded that Asian women who consume a traditional low-fat, high-soy diet have a four- to sixfold lower risk of developing breast cancer.33 The constituents in soy are remarkable in their activities against a variety of cancers via several different mechanisms." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The ongoing Canadian Diet and breast cancer prevention Trial, a multicenter randomized controlled study, is testing whether a low-fat (15% of energy), high-carbohydrate diet intervention can reduce the incidence of breast cancer over a 10-year period among women aged 30-65 years who have increased mam-mographic density [151]. Table 1 summarizes the nature of the evidence for a relationship with breast cancer and nutrients and other dietary constituents. B." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Effect of tamoxifen on venous thromboembolic events in a breast cancer prevention trial. Circulation 111, 650-656. 172. Abrahamson, P. E., Gammon, M. D., Lund, M. J., et al. (2006). General and abdominal obesity and survival among young women with breast cancer. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 15, 1871-1877. 173. Borugian, M. J., Sheps, S. B., Kim-Sing, C, et al. (2003). Waist-to-hip ratio and breast cancer mortality. Am. J. Epidemiol. 158, 963-968. 174. Kumar, N. B., Cantor, A., Allen, K., and Cox, C. E. (2000)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"As Jane Plant, PhD, remarks in The No Dairy breast cancer prevention Program: The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have similar rates of breast cancer: and remember, both cities were attacked with nuclear weapons, so in addition to the usual pollution-related cancers, one would also expect to find some radiation-related cases. If, as a North American woman, one was living a Japanese lifestyle in industrialized, irradiated Hiroshima, you would slash your risk of contracting breast cancer by a half to a third. The conclusion is inescapable." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"David Steinman published the authoritative breast cancer prevention Program (Macmillan, 1998) in which they noted that vitamin C was a critical nutrient in protecting women against breast cancer. They reported that if all North American women were to eat more fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin C, averaging at least 400 mg per day (more than six times the RDA), the "risk...in the population of postmenopausal women in North America would be reduced by 16 percent." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "Paul Goss, director of the breast cancer prevention program at Princess Margaret Hospital and the Toronto Hospital. Earlier animal studies have shown that flaxseed has anticancer properties, but the researchers were surprised by how potent the effect appears to be in people. "It encourages us to believe this is a very significant biological effect in women, and we are heading towards more definitive proof that dietary flaxseed may prevent breast cancer," Goss said. The study involved 50 women who had been recently diagnosed with breast cancer." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Thus, a role in breast cancer prevention for soy and soy isoflavones, as well as other phytoestrogens, has been investigated in numerous laboratory and epidemiological studies. However, phytoestrogens can act as estrogen agonists as well as antagonists, so it is possible that phytoestrogens could potentially promote mammary neoplasia. This would be most relevant for postmenopausal women, who do not have high levels of endogenous estrogens in the circulation that would compete for estrogen receptor binding sites." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"In discussions about vitamin E and its role in breast cancer, readers need to pay careful attention to specifics, namely differences between breast cancer prevention, treatment and use with chemotherapy. There is evidence that vitamin E plays a key role in protecting breast tissues and may be a strong preventive agent. [Advances Experimental Medicine Biology 364: 119-27, 1994] Women taking a 600 IU daily regimen of supplemental vitamin E did not report any significant reduction in breast pain for benign breast disease." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"These findings are preliminary, however, because they were secondary findings in studies that were not focused on breast cancer prevention, and the studies were not run as long as the tamoxifen studies. The drug appears to also pose the same risk factors for blood clotting that tamoxifen does. The FDA has not yet approved the drug for the prevention of breast cancer; however, it has been approved for the prevention of osteoporosis in menopausal women. Q Epirubicin (Ellence) is a chemotherapy drug that can be used to combat early-stage breast cancer that has spread to the lymph nodes." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Moreover, there is the additional concern that tamoxifen raises the risks for stroke, uterine cancer, cataracts, deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, although the overall benefits of breast cancer prevention are still believed to outweigh the risks.42 Other chemicals have also been investigated as alternatives to tamoxifen, but these drugs are encumbered by limited effectiveness and/or some of the same troublesome side effects.45,46 Drugs such as tamoxifen and its newer analogues are considered anti-estrogen drugs." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"The Safe Shopper's Bible, 1995. The breast cancer prevention Program, 1998. • The Politics of Cancer, Revisited, 1998. Unreasonable Risk. How to Avoid Cancer from Cosmetics and Other Personal Care Products: The Neways Story, 2005. Cancer-Gate: How to Win the Losing Cancer War, 2005. About the Author Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., D. Path., D.T." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) "He has published some 270 peer reviewed scientific articles, and authored or co-authored twelve books: the 1971 Mutagenicity of Pesticides: the 1971 Drugs of Abuse: Genetic and Other Chronic Non-Psychiatric Hazards: the 1974 The Legislation of Product Safety: Consumer Health and Product Hazards: the prize-winning 1978 The Politics of Cancer: the 1982 Hazardous Wastes in America: the 1983 Cancer in Britain: The Politics of Prevention: the 1995 Safe Shopper's Bible: the 1998 breast cancer prevention Program: the 1998 The Politics of Cancer Revisited: the 2001 Got (Genetically Engineered) Milk!" - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Bob Arnot's breast cancer prevention Diet, which argued for the use of flaxseed oil in tandem with traditional medicine, and Drs. William Shankle and Daniel Amen's Preventing Alzheimer's, which combines traditional pharma meds with such things as "mental exercise," omega-3 fatty acids, red rice yeast extract, and coenzyme Q, to delay or prevent the diseases. The king of the RX-plus genre is Dr. Steven Lamm, an internist and clinical assistant professor at New York University School of Medicine. "Staying young is the new American dream," he writes. " - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"They make the chemicals, they run the treatment centers, and they're still looking for 'the cure' — no wonder they won't tell you about breast cancer prevention," begins the expose by Sharon Batt and Liza Gross in Sierra magazine.21 It's the most straightforward way to put it. The co-founder and major sponsor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month is AstraZeneca (formerly known as Zeneca), a British-based multinational giant that manufactures the cancer drug tamoxifen, the most widely prescribed breast cancer drug." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"Mammograms certainly aren't the "magic bullet" for breast cancer prevention that everyone seems to think they are. For one thing, mammograms are of very limited effectiveness because they seem only to be able to detect tumors of a size that is large enough to signify a rather advanced stage of cancer. What is most disturbing about this diagnostic method is the excessive compression of the breast that is required during a routine mammogram. To produce good pictures and to avoid being sued for missing a tumor, the technician squeezes the breast extra hard." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"In a report published in Postgraduate Medicine entitled "Who's liable for breast cancer prevention? Your patient can sue-and win-if preventive options aren't made clear/' the emphasis is on doctors diagnosing breast cancer early and treating it, not addressing what caused it in the first place. [Postgraduate Medicine 111: 83, 2002] Mastectomy is still characterized as prevention. Chemoprevention is solely comprised of drugs like Tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors, all prescribed after diagnosis (called secondary prevention." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "Annals Surgical Oncology 2004] In another study, out of 51 women eligible for Tamoxifen breast cancer prevention, only 12% chose the drug and another 12% said they were uncertain. [Breast Cancer Research Treatment 94:153-9, 2005] In yet another study, only 1 of 89 (1.2%) at-risk women elected to take Tamoxifen for prevention of breast cancer and 42% of the women made their decision to pass up Tamoxifen based upon advice from their family doctors." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "Nutrition & Cancer 46:15-22, 2003] The point here is that supplemental vitamin E doesn't appear to raise mortality risk among patients being treated for breast cancer. In breast cancer prevention, the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 may be more important than the total omega-3 oils provided. [Preventive Medicine 16: 493-502, 1987] Low-dose omega-3 oil is believed by some researchers to be more useful in cancer prevention than treatment. [Oncology 53: 398-405, 1996] High-dose omega-3 oil is appropriate for treatment of breast cancer." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Epstein SS and Steinman D. breast cancer prevention program. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1998:5. Treatment for Thyroid Diseases with Chinese Herbal Medicine Subhuti Dharmananda (PhD), Director, Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, Oregon (Reprinted by permission of the author) INTRODUCTION Thyroid disease is common in China, and it is frequently treated by herbal medicine or a combination of herbs and drugs." - Michael Friedman, ND, Fundamentals of Naturopathic Endocrinology (Get the book.)

"While the long-term safety and the breast cancer prevention capabilities of these products have yet to be established, their manufacturers have carried out extremely effective advertising campaigns by playing on women's fears to promote their products. Similarly, your health practitioner has been bombarded with the drug companies' packaging of "the latest scientific findings" (from short-term studies) and may even be frightened into thinking that women could now sue their physicians if they are not offered "breast cancer prevention" drugs." - National Women's Health Network, The Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy: How to Break fee from the Medical Myths of Menopause (Get the book.) "Pages 57-64 summarize the key issues about the new products being marketed for breast cancer prevention. While the long-term safety and the breast cancer prevention capabilities of these products have yet to be established, their manufacturers have carried out extremely effective advertising campaigns by playing on women's fears to promote their products." - National Women's Health Network, The Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy: How to Break fee from the Medical Myths of Menopause (Get the book.)

"Paul Gross, director of the breast cancer prevention program at the Princess Margaret Hospital and the Toronto Hospital, has reported that flaxseed in the diet may shrink breast cancers. His study involved fifty women who had recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. While waiting for their surgery, the women were divided into two groups. Those in one group were given a daily muffin containing 25 grams (a little less than 2 tablespoons) of ground flaxseed. The others were prescribed ordinary muffins." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"Epstein's The breast cancer prevention Program, 2nd ed., 1999, and give it to your daughters, women friends and others. 10. If you have been recently diagnosed with cancer, search the web and the literature for the latest alternative treatments; your doctor is no doubt sincere, but possibly functions on automatic pilot, especially if he or she relies on drug representatives instead of the medical journals. 11.Thoughtfully consider, but carefully doubt all information (including this article.) and start your own search." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.) "In his book, The breast cancer prevention Program, he detads the corruption of this organization: lobbying to prevent the lucrative cancer drug Tamoxifen from being listed as carcinogen (it was listed as such anyway ); when the Reagan and Bush administrations cancelled legislation pertaining to protecting against known industrial carcinogens, the ACS kept sdent; they refused to support the US Clean Air Act and the Toxic Substance Control Act, and opposed the FDA's ban on the carcinogenic sweetener saccharin (they had accepted money from Coca-Cola which used it in their drinks)." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

"Instead, it has boldly promoted the adverse effects as beneficial—as the key to breast cancer prevention no less. An example of such positive spin applied to alarming study results appears in a 1994 article published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.21 Aedin Cassidy completed an in-depth study of six women of childbearing age who were given 60 grams of textured vegetable protein (containing 45 mg total isoflavones) per day for 30 days." - Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, The Whole Soy Story: The dark side of America's favorite health food (Get the book.)

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