Obama: Make It Breast Cancer PREVENTION Month
- von: Breast Cancer Fund
- empfänger: President Barack Obama
When we know that 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, we have a moral imperative to focus on preventing the disease. Mounting evidence links breast cancer to toxic chemicals in our everyday environments. We need public policies that protect us from toxic chemical exposure and reduce breast cancer risk. We must:
- Implement the President's Cancer Panel's recommendation to create a new national cancer prevention plan,
- Direct the FDA to eliminate toxic bisphenol A (BPA) from food and beverage containers,
- Give the FDA authority to ensure that cosmetics are safe -- not toxic, and
- Reform the broken Toxic Substances Control Act.
At a time when virtually every American has been touched by breast cancer, we must go beyond awareness to prevention.
This October, ask President Obama to make breast cancer prevention a top policy priority.
- Implement the President's Cancer Panel's recommendation to create a new national cancer prevention plan,
- Direct the FDA to eliminate toxic bisphenol A (BPA) from food and beverage containers,
- Give the FDA authority to ensure that cosmetics are safe -- not toxic, and
- Reform the broken Toxic Substances Control Act.
At a time when virtually every American has been touched by breast cancer, we must go beyond awareness to prevention.
This October, ask President Obama to make breast cancer prevention a top policy priority.
Dear President Obama,
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, please prioritize prevention.
In October, we hear a lot about early detection of breast cancer, improving treatment and finding a cure--all of which are extremely important. But when a woman's lifetime risk is 1 in 8, we have a moral imperative to stop this disease before it starts.
Breast cancer rates have increased dramatically since the 1930s, paralleling the rise of toxic chemicals in our everyday products. Today, roughly 85,000 synthetic chemicals are registered for use in the United States, more than 90 percent of which have never been tested for their effects on human health.
A new report from the Breast Cancer Fund clearly shows the mounting evidence linking our exposures to many of these chemicals--found in our food, plastics, cosmetics, household products, medical treatment, air and water--to the high rates of breast cancer. State of the Evidence: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment also outlines how infants, pregnant women, African-American women and workers are more vulnerable.
This report comes just months after your own President's Cancer Panel released its report, Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now, which found that the true burden of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated and urged the government to reduce our exposure to toxic chemicals in food, air and water, and to create a national campaign for cancer prevention.
You have a historic opportunity to change the course of the war on cancer, to protect the public from toxic chemicals, and to reduce breast and other cancer rates.
I urge you to make breast cancer prevention a top policy priority by supporting four key initiatives:
1. Follow your Cancer Panel's recommendations to create a new national cancer prevention plan. Place the burden on chemical companies to show their chemicals are safe; ensure stronger federal regulation of chemicals and better coordination between agencies that manage chemicals in consumer products, workplaces and the environment; and increase funding for research into the environmental links to cancer.
2. Issue a federal mandate to eliminate bisphenol A from food and beverage containers. BPA is a synthetic estrogen linked to breast cancer and other serious health problems that is used in some plastic baby bottles and water bottles, as well as the epoxy-resin lining of food and infant formula cans. Safer alternatives exist, so there is no excuse to continue to expose people to this toxic chemical.
3. Expand FDA authority to ensure that cosmetics are safe. We need government oversight to address the safety of personal care products, which are currently unregulated and often contain chemicals linked to cancer and other health concerns.
4. Support reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Studies by the National Academy of Sciences, U.S. Government Accountability Office and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others, have concluded that TSCA does not adequately help the public, industry or government assess the hazards of chemicals in commerce or control those of greatest concern.
At a time when virtually every American has been touched by breast cancer, what we need is commitment to strong public policy to eliminate the environmental causes of breast cancer. With this commitment, we will reach a time when fewer people are diagnosed with this devastating disease.
Thank you in advance for your leadership and support of this important breast cancer prevention agenda.
Petition unterzeichnenPetition unterzeichnenThis Breast Cancer Awareness Month, please prioritize prevention.
In October, we hear a lot about early detection of breast cancer, improving treatment and finding a cure--all of which are extremely important. But when a woman's lifetime risk is 1 in 8, we have a moral imperative to stop this disease before it starts.
Breast cancer rates have increased dramatically since the 1930s, paralleling the rise of toxic chemicals in our everyday products. Today, roughly 85,000 synthetic chemicals are registered for use in the United States, more than 90 percent of which have never been tested for their effects on human health.
A new report from the Breast Cancer Fund clearly shows the mounting evidence linking our exposures to many of these chemicals--found in our food, plastics, cosmetics, household products, medical treatment, air and water--to the high rates of breast cancer. State of the Evidence: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment also outlines how infants, pregnant women, African-American women and workers are more vulnerable.
This report comes just months after your own President's Cancer Panel released its report, Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now, which found that the true burden of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated and urged the government to reduce our exposure to toxic chemicals in food, air and water, and to create a national campaign for cancer prevention.
You have a historic opportunity to change the course of the war on cancer, to protect the public from toxic chemicals, and to reduce breast and other cancer rates.
I urge you to make breast cancer prevention a top policy priority by supporting four key initiatives:
1. Follow your Cancer Panel's recommendations to create a new national cancer prevention plan. Place the burden on chemical companies to show their chemicals are safe; ensure stronger federal regulation of chemicals and better coordination between agencies that manage chemicals in consumer products, workplaces and the environment; and increase funding for research into the environmental links to cancer.
2. Issue a federal mandate to eliminate bisphenol A from food and beverage containers. BPA is a synthetic estrogen linked to breast cancer and other serious health problems that is used in some plastic baby bottles and water bottles, as well as the epoxy-resin lining of food and infant formula cans. Safer alternatives exist, so there is no excuse to continue to expose people to this toxic chemical.
3. Expand FDA authority to ensure that cosmetics are safe. We need government oversight to address the safety of personal care products, which are currently unregulated and often contain chemicals linked to cancer and other health concerns.
4. Support reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Studies by the National Academy of Sciences, U.S. Government Accountability Office and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others, have concluded that TSCA does not adequately help the public, industry or government assess the hazards of chemicals in commerce or control those of greatest concern.
At a time when virtually every American has been touched by breast cancer, what we need is commitment to strong public policy to eliminate the environmental causes of breast cancer. With this commitment, we will reach a time when fewer people are diagnosed with this devastating disease.
Thank you in advance for your leadership and support of this important breast cancer prevention agenda.
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