Nancy Evans, health science consultant to the Breast Cancer Fund, discusses the environmental causes of breast cancer and the early onset of puberty.

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SHOW INTRODUCTION No more than 10% of women diagnosed with breast cancer have a genetic history of the disease. And yet genetics are stressed when this cancer is discussed. How about the environment? In 2007 a survey by the Silent Spring Institute found that 216 chemicals have already been identified as mammary carcinogens. That’s just the ones we know about. So have they all been banned, regulated, and removed from our products, food, air, and oceans? Well, no, not so much. Women aren’t the only ones at risk. Girls are reaching puberty earlier and earlier with symptoms of extreme metabolic disruption and health consequences including an increased incidence of breast cancer in adulthood. And men get breast cancer too, as well as prostate cancer. Isn’t it time we pushed for better regulation and policy? We think so. Join us as we discover where, how, and who are at risk and how you can protect them and fight for a better future for all the earth’s creatures!