Breast cancer rates are increasing worldwide.

• Each year 180,000 women in the US alone are diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 40,000 die of the disease every year.
• Around 15,000 women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer die each year in the United Kingdom.
• Breast cancer rates among New Zealand women are just as frightful. Only 50 years ago a woman's lifetime risk was 1 in 20. Now it's a dramatic 1 in 8. This rate continues to climb at 1 per cent per year.*

As the medical miracles of a cancer cure become more of a mirage, and the unprecedented spectacle of medical bumblings such as the Gisborne smear debacle continue, we wonder what's next.

Pouring more millions into "research for a cure" is patently a waste. What are we really doing to stem this rising plague? We have, for instance, the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, together with improvements in surgery and treatment, but it seems these are not working either.

I firmly believe this is nonsense and that not only are environmental toxins and hormone-disrupting chemicals, which are still pouring into our environment, to blame for breast cancer. To some degree, so is X-ray mammography. As early as 1977, Dr Irwin Bross had become an outspoken critic of mammography, calling it a "disastrous mistake" that would "produce the worst... epidemic of cancer in medical history."(1)

At a meeting of the NCI, Bross accused the American Cancer Society of subjecting a quarter of a million women to X-ray dosages equivalent "to death warrants with a 15-year delay in the execution."(2) Few folk realize the mastermind behind Breast Cancer Awareness Month was our old friend the pharmaceutical giant Zeneca... now AstraZeneca.

This is the company manufacturing the controversial breast cancer drug Tamoxifen, which grosses $500 million USD a year, and is suspected to cause, among others, endometrial cancer.(3) They do not advertise of course that they also manufacture pesticides such as Acetochlor (a well-known carcinogen) which, yes you’ve guessed it, almost certainly causes breast cancer, together with a whole host of other nasties in the herbicide-fungicide range.

When it comes to tackling the industries producing all of this muck, there is an ominous silence from the Breast Cancer Awareness programs, and even more so from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and governments. Men like Professor Samuel Epstein have spent their lives fighting this battle. Tight-lipped environmental scientists struggle to hide the 10 Healthy Options • August ‘01

Thermography of the breast can detect abnormality 8-10 years before mammography can detect a mass.

The truth is that breast cancer can be prevented utilizing technology now in practice in Ecuador.

Studies have proven the primary cause of this cancer, which we can identify through the use of high resolution digital thermal imaging.

When the cause is corrected, the cancer is prevented. Call it nonsense, call it whatever you want, but thousands of high risk women are being spared of this disease using this technology.