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For 75% of breast cancer patients, genetics is not a factor. Environmental causes look more likely

This is a very important research finding.  For decades, Australian women have been fed stories on how breast cancer is probably genetically caused.  Each women is advised to look into the cancer background of her family.  OK. Still a good idea.

So the cancer is supposed to be initiated from inside us.  But how about environmental causes?  How about the chemical bath in which we all swim?  In food additives, in chemical sprays on fruit and vegetables.  And how about ionising radiation – some from (often necessary) medical radiation, some from France’s Pacific  atomic bomb testing 1960 to 1996?

We’re always being urged to donate to breast cancer research.  How about some research into environmental causes of breast cancer?

Genetics not a factor in three-quarters of breast cancer cases Herald Sun, Susie O’Brien, 16 Feb 13, FAMILY history plays no role in breast cancer in three out of four women, a shock new Victorian survey has revealed.

Analysis of the breast screens of almost 20,000 women over two decades shows 72 per cent of women who got breast cancer had no family history of the disease.

The findings contradict the popular belief that genetics plays a key role in determining which one in nine women will get breast cancer….. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/genetics-not-a-factor-in-three-quarters-of-breast-cancer-cases/story-e6frf7kx-1226579439609

February 18, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, Victoria