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Federal Report Says Breast Cancer Prevention Fails to Account for Chemicals

New report, Breast Cancer and the Environment, echoes the President’s Cancer Panel of 2011 in finding that federal efforts are overly-focused on finding a cure and focus too little on prevention, including intelligent regulation of substances known to cause cancer.

Filed Under: Health Science Tagged With: Andy Igrejas, Breast Cancer and the Environment Prioritizing Prevention, chemicals, chemicals of concern, Congress, Safe Chemicals Act, TSCA reform, the federal Interagency Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Coordinating Committee, chemicals already known to cause cancer, prevent cancer, environmental factors, statment on report, the President’s Cancer Panel, IBCERCC

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