Links
Breast Cancer and the Environment
Allergy and Environmental Health Association of Quebec
Knowledge, attitude and behaviour change among parents, caregivers, service providers and decision-makers can significantly reduce children’s exposure to toxic substances.
www.aeha-quebec.ca/
Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors
A resource that provides science-based information on the relationships between breast cancer and environmental risk factors, including pesticides and dietary factors. Its materials are developed for a diverse audience, including consumers, educators, public policy makers, scientists, media representatives. http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/
Breast Cancer Fund
TBCF believes that most breast cancer can be prevented, and has adopted the bold mission to eliminate the environmental causes of the disease. Through public education, policy initiatives, outdoor challenges and other innovative campaigns, TBCF mobilizes the public to secure the changes needed to stop this devastating epidemic. www.breastcancerfund.org
Chemicals, Health and Environment Monitoring Trust
Protecting humans and wildlife from harmful chemicals www.chemtrust.org.uk
Clean Production Action is a nonprofit organization that promotes the use of products that are safer and cleaner across their life cycle for consumers, workers and communities. Our mission is the societal realization of Clean Production and Sustainable Consumption. www.cleanproduction.org
Environmental Risks and Breast Cancer (Vassar College): explores how common chemicals may affect risk factors for breast cancer—and that the timing of exposure is also important, according to growing scientific evidence. http://erbc.vassar.edu/erbc/index.html
Health Care Without Harm: an international coalition working to transform the health care industry so it is no longer a source of harm to people and the environment, focusing on mercury, PVC & DEHP, medical waste, healthy buildings, pesticides and cleaners, and green purchasing. Useful information and links to related sites. www.noharm.org
International Conference on Fetal Programming and Developmental Toxicity: During May 20–24, 2007, researchers in the fields of environmental health, environmental chemistry, developmental biology, toxicology, epidemiology, nutrition, and paediatrics gathered at the International Conference on Fetal Programming and Developmental Toxicity, in Torshavn, Faroe Islands. The conference goal was to highlight new insights into the effects of prenatal and early postnatal exposure to toxicants, and their sustained effects on individuals throughout their lifespan. The Conference brought together, for the first time, key researchers to focus on human data and translation of laboratory results to elucidate the environmental risks to human health. http://www.pptox.dk
Pesticides and Your Health: What You Can Do
The Canadian Cancer Society website link that discusses pesticides, the risks they have for human health, and makes suggestions for everyday alternatives to their use. www.cancer.ca
Prevent Cancer Now
Intended to build and sustain a Canada-wide movement that generates both the resolve and action required to eliminate preventable causes of cancer. www.preventcancernow.ca
Sandra Steingraber’s website: Information about Sandra’s work, her books, media clips, speeches and a good list of links to activist organizations, information sources, publications. www.livingdownstream.com/
Science and Environmental Health Network: a network and a think tank, SEHN “advocates the wise application of science to protecting the environment and public health”. Links to like-minded organizations and documents on relevant topics such as the Precautionary Principle. www.sehn.org
Silent Spring Institute: Researching the environment and women’s health www.silentspring.org/
State of the Evidence: What is the Connection Between the Environment and Breast Cancer?
Women’s Healthy Environments Network
WHEN actively promotes the primary prevention of environmentally linked health problems such as cancer, asthma, immune system related conditions and others by advocating the reduction of toxic emissions; a shift to safe production models, biological agriculture and lawn care; more efficient, renewable energy sources; affordable public transportation; and more. www.womenshealthyenvironments.ca/
Breast Cancer and Environmental Advocacy, Education & Information
A Canada-wide movement to eliminate the preventable causes of cancerwww.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/health/cancer (url no longer valid)
Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR): a comprehensive site of scientific information on cancers, including definitions, treatment options, clinical trials, publications etc. www.acor.org/types.html
The Breast Cancer Fund www.breastcancerfund.org
Breast Cancer Action San Francisco is an advocacy organization, working to make changes in legislature as well as to empower others to create change by being informed. www.bcaction.org
Bulletin of the Canadian Network for Human Health and the Environment The Canadian Network for Human Health and the Environment covers broad human health-related environmental issues relating to air, water, soil, food, climate change and consumer products. www.cnhhe-rcshe.ca
Canadian Breast Cancer Network (CBCN): a national network of organizations and individuals, the CBCN is a national link between all groups and individuals concerned about breast cancer in Canada. Their site provides numerous links to information about all aspects of breast cancer. www.cbcn.ca
Canadian Network for Human Health and the Environment: This is a Canadian-based network of non-governmental, research, health professional and policy organizations focusing on human health and the impacts of environmental exposures. www.cnhhe-rcshe.ca
Cornell University’s Program on Beast Cancer & Environmental Risk Factors
envirocancer.cornell.edu
Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia’s Guide to Less Toxic Products
www.lesstoxicguide.ca/index.asp
The Environmental Working Group www.ewg.org
Environmental Defence www.environmentaldefence.ca
Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered: a nonprofit organization for women who are at high risk of inheriting breast and ovarian cancers due to their family history and genetic status, and for members of families in which a BRCA mutation may be present. The web site can be a helpful resource for anyone who knows she is at risk, who wonders whether she might be at risk, or who cares about the issues and concerns to be faced. www.facingourrisk.org
Health Canada Environmental Health Guide: Health Canada launched an environmental health guide called Hazardcheck. The guide provides general advice to Canadians on simple actions that they can take to reduce exposure to a number of environmental health risks that may be present inside their homes. The guide is available on-line and in print format. Please visit www.HealthyCanadians.gc.ca/Hazardcheck for the on-line version of Hazardcheck and for information on how to order print copies of the guide.
The Health and Environment Alliance is a network of groups representing citizens, patients, women, health professionals and environmental organizations across Europe and the world. Visit them at www.env-health.org/ In particular their Chemicals Health Monitor [www.chemicalshealthmonitor.org/spip.php?rubrique100] is an excellent on line source of information on chemicals and disease.
Imaginis.com: a comprehensive resource for women and physicians on various aspects of breast cancer and other women’s health issues put together by an “independent team of health care specialists to ensure that it is up to date and accurate.” imaginis.com
The Marketplace Chasing the Cancer Answer website www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/health/cancer
The Ontario Breast Cancer Exchange Partnership www.obcep.ca
The Saunders-Matthew Cancer Prevention Coalition www.stopcancer.org
Susan Love is a renowned physician in the field of breast cancer. This site combines the latest in information about the topic with special notices of the most current research. www.susanlovemd.com
The UK working group “Prevention is the Cure” www.nomorebreastcancer.org.uk
Women's Environmental Network www.wen.org.uk/cosmetics/companies.htm
Women's Environmental Network’s Ending the Cosmetics Cover Up campaign, which highlights the thousands of potentially harmful chemicals used in skincare products and toiletries, generates many enquiries from those seeking out alternative products. In response WEN has invited cosmetics and toiletries companies to complete a questionnaire on the sustainability of their manufacturing processes, with a view to their inclusion on WEN's Careful Beauty Checklist
The Young Survival Coalition: an international, non-profit network of breast cancer survivors and supporters dedicated to “action, advocacy, awareness” on issues that are unique to young women and breast cancer. www.youngsurvival.org
Safe Cosmetics Campaign
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a coalition effort launched in 2004 to protect the health of consumers and workers by securing the corporate, regulatory and legislative reforms necessary to eliminate dangerous chemicals from cosmetics and personal care products. safecosmetics.org
Environmental Defence has a new information page about cosmetics and personal care product regulation in Canada. www.toxicnation.ca/node/259
Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia’s Guide to Less Toxic Products
www.lesstoxicguide.ca/index.asp
Alternative/Complementary Cancer Therapies
The Annie Appleseed Project (a nonprofit corporation in Florida) acts to inform, educate, advocate and raise awareness for people with cancer, family and friends interested in, or using alternative/complementary cancer therapies (CAM). www.annieappleseedproject.org
Breast Cancer Research
The Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance (CBCRA): the primary funder of breast cancer research in Canada with major financial commitments from the Avon Flame Foundation, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, the Canadian Breast Cancer Network, Canadian Cancer Society, Health Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the National Cancer Institute of Canada. www.breast.cancer.ca
Breast Cancer Stats
Health Canada Breast Cancer Site Online (BILINGUAL): a factual site with information on breast cancer in Canada, research, clinical practice guidelines, publications, and links to organizations across Canada. www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ccdpc-cpcmc/bc-cds/index_e.html
Breast Reconstruction
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centerwww.mdanderson.org/care_centers/psc
Cancer Support Groups
Hope and Cope: a volunteer support system for cancer patients and their families. www.jgh.ca/en/HopeCope?mid=ctl00_MainMenu_ctl00_TheMenu-menuItem015-subMenu-menuItem005
Women’s Health (including breast cancer information)
The Canadian Women’s Health Network (BILINGUAL): thousands of resources, organizations, and research projects on a variety of women’s health topics. www.cwhn.ca/search/basicSearch.htm
Council of Canadians (of particular interest is their document on the Security and Prosperity Partnership as it affects food production and inspection) www.canadians.org
South Asian Women’s Community Centre
Project Éco-santé Tools – Graphic Booklets, Brochures and Videos Our health is linked to the quality of our social and physical environments. Project Éco-santé tous ensemble explores the links between women’s heart, breathing, and mental health and their environments through a photo-video and a graphic booklet available in 10 languages (French, English, Urdu, Dari, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Portuguese, Creole and Spanish), and three brochures (available in French and English).
www.sawcc-ccfsa.ca/
www.sawcc-ccfsa.ca/EN/?p=408
Health Information
The Cochrane Library: Canadians are one click away from the best available evidence on which health treatments work, which ones don’t, and which may cause harm.
www.ccnc.cochrane.org/en/index.html
McGill Life Sciences Library: The Library fosters excellence in life sciences education, research and service by providing access to knowledge based health care information…
www.mcgill.ca/lsl/collections/links/subject/evidence/