Br3east cancer sufferer Sharon Adams whose mastectomy photos were banned from Facebook

Breast Cancer on the Golf Course

Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma:

 is more common in men than in women, and the risk increases with age. Also, you may be at higher risk for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma if any of these is true:

  • Your immune system is weakened by an inherited disease, autoimmune disease, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), or drugs given because you had an organ transplant
  • You have been infected with human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-1), Epstein-Barr virus (which causes mononucleosis), Helicobacter pylori (a bacteria that causes ulcers), or hepatitis C
  • You were exposed to certain chemicals, such as ingredients in
  • pesticides, herbicides, solvents, or fertilizers.

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http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-05-14a.htmPESTICIDES LINKED TO LYMPHOMA

A friend, a "Master Gardener," suggested looking into pesticides knowing our home was just about

sitting on the third hole of a golf course. From his information there was a possibility that pesticide " drift"

 could be the source of, and for that matter the cause of BREAST CANCER, all lung diseases, notably

those with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (cause unknown), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, brain cancer, prostate,

lung cancer, COPD, allergies, asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, not to preclude many other health issues

when exposed to golf course and residential chemical applications.
 

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BREAST CANCER

"I think the future commander in chief needs to show up and talk about what kills 600,000 Americans a year.

"Lance Armstrong speaks on Tim Russert program, Meet the Press, August 27, 2007

Reported Residential Pesticide Use and Breast Cancer Risk on Long Island, New York

Susan L. Teitelbaum1, Marilie D. Gammon2, Julie A. Britton1, Alfred I. Neugut3,4, Bruce Levin5 and Steven D. Stellman3

1 Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
3 Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
4 Department of Medicine, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
5 Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY

Correspondence to Dr. Susan L. Teitelbaum, Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine,

One Gustave Levy Place, Box 1043, New York, NY 10029 (e-mail: susan.teitelbaum{at}mssm.edu).

Received for publication February 2, 2006. Accepted for publication July 28, 2006. (e-mail: susan.teitelbaum@mssm.edu ).

Pesticides, common environmental exposures, have been examined in relation to breast cancer primarily in occupational studies

or exposure biomarker studies. No known studies have focused on self-reported residential pesticide use. The authors

investigated the association between reported lifetime residential pesticide use and breast cancer risk among women

living on Long Island, New York. They conducted a population-based case-control study of 1,508 women newly

diagnosed with breast cancer between August 1996 and July 1997 and 1,556 randomly selected, age-frequency-matched controls.

Comprehensive residential pesticide use and other risk factors were assessed by using an in-person,

interviewer-administered questionnaire. Unconditional logistic regression was used to calculate odds ratios

and 95% confidence intervals. Breast cancer risk was associated with ever lifetime residential pesticide

 use (odds ratio = 1.39, 95% confidence interval: 1.15, 1.68). However, there was no evidence of

increasing risk with increasing lifetime applications. Lawn and garden pesticide use was

associated with breast cancer risk, but there was no dose response. Little or no association was

found for nuisance-pest pesticides, insect repellants, or products to control lice or fleas and ticks on pets.

This study is the first known to suggest that self-reported use of residential pesticides may

increase breast cancer risk. Further investigation in other populations is necessary to confirm these findings.

breast neoplasms; case-control studies; environmental exposure; gardening; housing; pesticides

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; LIBCSP, Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project; OR, odds ratio

Pesticides were one of the earliest suspects in the search for environmental factors in breast cancer; because laboratory

studies show that many pesticides can mimic estrogen, a known breast cancer risk factor, or disrupt other hormones.

Investigating this link is difficult, though, because we have all been exposed to multiple

 pesticides via multiple pathways. To study the effect on breast cancer, we need
the right way to measure those exposures.

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Sending women onto pesticide-saturated grass to raise money for breast cancer seems problematic to me when the

sponsoring organization is one that is committed to addressing the environmental causes of cancer.

While the commitment of the organization may be unshakable, the methods

 used to do its work and the larger social effects of those methods must be questioned

Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition - PREVENTION IS THE CURE!

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NOW FOR THE MEN

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How do Men Become Estrogen Dominant ? (Female sex hormone)

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"During the last couple of decades this steady drop in Hormone production has been accelerated due to Estrogens in our environment (herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, Hormones used to produce fatter animals, larger eggs, more milk, etc.). The overall effect is less bio-available Testosterone in the Body by the age of 40 instead of the historic age of 55 years."

Is the Environment Hurting Men?

Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute - “the Effects that the Following Hormones (Testosterone, Estrogen, and Progesterone) Have on the Human Body (Contents of Curriculum Unit 88.05.04:)

Endocrine Disrupting Pesticides

What are Endocrine Disruptors? 

What is the Endoctrine System  Click for all information

Due to health and environmental concerns, several European countries have banned atrazine. The European Union has announced it will ban atrazine in 2005.

Due to its ability to disrupt the endocrine system and interfere with hormones, atrazine has been linked to limb deformities, abnormal sexual changes, weakened immune systems, and declining populations of frogs and amphibians. While atrazine can cause sexual abnormalities in several species, frogs are especially sensitive. Scientists have found that frogs exposed to atrazine have multiple, mixed gonads and become demasculinized -- at levels 10,000-30,000 times lower than levels previously thought to be non-toxic to frogs. Although counterintuitive, there is a body of evidence showing that atrazine and other hormonally active compounds are most damaging at trace concentrations.

 Infants and children are primarily exposed through drinking water. They could aslo be exposed during and after applications as the result of drift of the pesticide on air currents or from pesticide deposited in soil.

The chemical atrazine is ranked as Orange for Warning. We recommend that you avoid exposure.

Endoctrine Disrupting Pesticides Many pesticides are now suspected of being endocrine disruptors – chemicals that can lead to an increase in birth defects, sexual abnormalities and reproductive failure. Gwynne Lyons of WWF-UK examines the current evidence and potential for adverse effects to occur in both wildlife and human populations.

 

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