The government and the ‘cancer establishment’ have been accused of failing to tackle the causes of breast cancer, particularly exposure to industrial chemicals. A report, by an umbrella organisation called the UK Working Group on the Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer, pulls together evidence on what is known of the effect of gender-bending chemicals, carcinogens and toxins on animals and humans.

Breast cancer – an environmental disease: The case for primary prevention, UK Working Group on the Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer, September 2005.  Report website and news release, 28 September 2005.