Subject:  EMF-L Re REPORT First World Conference on Breast Cancer
Date:     Tue, 29 Jul 1997 014956 -0500 (CDT)
From:     creuss@hitline.ch (Christoph Reuss)
To:       Multiple recipients of list <emf-l@mail.llion.org>
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On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, John D. Evans wrote:
>Generally speaking, what showed up at the part of the conference we
>attended was that hereditary cancers make up a very small part of the
>overall cancer rates.  The feeling, especially in the face of ever-rising
>cancer rates around the world, is that the thousands of toxins (including
>EMFs) entering our environment almost daily, certainly have a large bearing
>on the increased incidence of cancer, especially breast cancer.  We are
>being bombarded with insecticides, growth hormones, nuclear radiation
>fallout, weed killers, mine tailings, industrial pollution, automobile
>pollution,  electrosmog, etc., etc., etc.

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals really seem to play an important role.
Two interesting texts on this are:   (no mentioning of EMFs, though)
                http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r544.html
                http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r547.html

The WHO annual report 1997 press release says:    (http://www.who.ch/)

> According to the report, the eight most common cancers worldwide in terms
of
>incidence are also the eight which cause most deaths. These are cancers of
the
>lung, stomach, breast, colon/rectum, mouth, liver, cervix, and oesophagus.
>Together they accounted for about 60% of the 6.3 million cancer deaths and
>10.3 million cancer cases in 1996.
>
>In all of these cancers, at least one lifestyle factor plays an important
>role. The most worrying trend is the increasing number of women developing
>either lung cancer or breast cancer.
>
>[...]
>
>Breast Cancer: More than half of all cases are in industrialized countries.
>Incidence is increasing in most parts of the world, particularly in regions
>which previously had low rates. Studies show that the incidence in women
who
>migrate from low to high-risk regions, slowly rises, over two or three
>generations, to the rates of the host country. This illustrates the
>importance of lifestyle as well as hormonal risk factors in the development
>of the disease. Other risk factors are obesity after menopause, and diet,
in
>particular too high a consumption of animal fats. At least half of breast
>cancer sufferers survive at least five years after diagnosis.

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Greetings,
Chris


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