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...When I was a medical student in the 1960s, the incidence of breast cancer was about 1 in 200 women and was rare in men. The incidence of breast cancer where I live is now about 1 in 6 women, and I have known two men who had breast cancer. Your articles would have us blame the victims for their disease - self-induced by unhealthy lifestyles and obesity. The alarming increase in cancers is the result of a toxic environment. As the breast-cancer advocacy group Rachel's Friends says, "You can race for the cure...
Every Nation's Race for a Cure Thank you for the articles on breast cancer [Oct. 15]. My wife succumbed to the disease after a 10-year fight. During that time, I learned much about its diagnosis, treatment and funding. Advancements in diagnosis and the array of treatments that are available to women with certain characteristics of the disease are heartening. However, there is a paucity of funding. We need to better understand priorities and must demand that our representatives do too. Members of Congress can work to more effectively define funding priorities while realizing that their efforts affect more...
...rapidly rising rates of breast cancer in developing nations are closely correlated with the movement away from traditional diets and lifestyles and toward those found in the more affluent Western countries. If the goal is to prevent the spread of breast cancer around the world, perhaps more attention should be paid to these global changes rather than to the development of more expensive - and often unattainable - medical devices and drugs. Leonard A. Cohen, Ph.D., Editor Nutrition and Cancer Northampton, Massachusetts...
...Kathleen Kingsbury mentioned that women who have more children have a lower risk of developing breast cancer. Might part of the problem in the industrialized world be that women breast-feed for a relatively short duration? The vast majority of mothers in the U.S. wean a baby by six months. In contrast, most mothers in developing countries still practice the age-old custom of nursing a child for two to four years. A woman need not birth a baker's dozen to lessen her risk for breast cancer; breast-feeding beyond one year might very well benefit both...
...Nearly six years ago, in my late 40s, I learned I had calcification deposits in my breast that turned out to be cancerous, as they sometimes can be. I was stunned, and so was my family. None of the women in our family had ever had to battle the disease. Since immigrating to the U.S. as a teenager, I have enjoyed more opportunity and freedom of choice than either my mother or grandmother. But I now see that I am paying the price for multitasking and the pursuit of the American Dream, with the accompanying stress and ceaseless consumerism. Focusing...