Breast cancer & the environment

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I came across this interesting article today via The Silent Spring Institute:

http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/breast-cancer-part-1

"Most cancers aren’t one single piece of damage, but a collection of injuries to a cell or a tissue over a lifetime, making it hard to pin a cause on any one agent, Taylor said.  Yet, if endocrine disruptors give you a predisposition for tumor growth, “you’re starting life with one strike against you...” 

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And another, interesting related story, also via Silent Spring Institute today:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/348350/description/Blood_levels_of_BPA_become_source_of_controversy