Big-Picture Solutions
At the Breast Cancer Fund, we know that there are things each of us can do every day to reduce our personal breast cancer risk. We also know that individual action is not enough.
That's why we're working on big-picture solutions. We're working to transform how we think about and use chemicals and radiation in order to reduce breast cancer risk and sustain life. We are finding solutions today so our children, grandchildren and planet thrive tomorrow.
Working together, we can achieve changes that will protect our health and prevent breast cancer.
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Make Our Products Safe
Find out what we’re doing at the state and federal level to get manufacturers to stop relying on toxic chemicals.
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Make Prevention a Public Health Priority
Learn how we're getting everyone involved in stopping cancer before it starts.
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Green Our Chemical System
See how we're helping evolve outdated chemical policies so they support disease prevention and sustainability.
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Partners and Coalitions
The Breast Cancer Fund works with many national and regional coalitions as well as individual organizations to promote breast cancer prevention.
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Find an Action
Search our complete list of advocacy opportunities. Which issues are important to you and how can you take action?
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FDA warns of skin creams, lotions tainted with mercury (ABC7-TV San Francisco, 5/16/2012)
Mercury in imported skin-lightening creams is just the latest example of toxic chemicals in cosmetics.
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05.10.12
Lessons from our Mothers: Joey Beauregard
Within a few weeks of my diagnosis, I learned of other young women in my neighborhood that had also been told they had breast cancer during the past year.
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05.03.12
Worth a read: How chemicals affect us
Nicholas Kristof calls out canned food and cosmetics as culprits and breast cancer as one tragic effect of our current stew of endocrine-disrupting chemicals
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05.01.12
Untested chemicals in beauty products? (ABC World News, 4/30/2012)
Women put an average of 120 chemicals - some linked to cancer and other health problems - on their bodies each day via cosmetics, shared Diane Sawyer on last night's ABC World News.
