Issue #26, Summer 2002

Stop the Epidemic is the Official Newsletter of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition.

• Legislative Update – FY 03 Budget Process Continues
  Thanks to the extraordinary hard work of our grassroots activists and MBCC supporters, our efforts to protect breast cancer research and screening funding in the FY03 Budget process have been successful thus far.
  
  
• Breast Cancer Activists Follow the Money to Avon Shareholder Meeting
  When we last reported on our campaign to get Avon to "do the right thing" for women with and at risk for breast cancer (see BCA Newsletter #69, January/February 2002 and MBCC Newsletter #25), we were hopeful that last October’s meeting with Avon Foundation management would lead to progress
  
  
• MBCC Welcomes new members to the Board of Directors
  We are fortunate to have some talented new members on the MBCC Board of Directors as we moves into our eleventh year.
  
  
• The Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow Pursues Commitment from Gubernatorial Candidates to Child Health Action Plan
  The Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow is a coalition of citizen organizations, health professionals and educators seeking preventative action to prevent harm to our health from toxic hazards.
  
  
• The Myth of Living Safely in a Toxic World
  In the spring of 1997, after four years of research and writing, I published Living Downstream, a book that explored the relationship between human cancer and environmental contamination.
  
  
• California Summit To Recommend National Breast Cancer Research Agenda
  In an event that added a strong West Coast voice to the call that MBCC and Silent Spring Institute have long raised, participants at the "InternationalSummit on Breast Cancer and the Environment: Research Needs" discussed environmental hypotheses and crafted recommendations for a national agenda for research on the environmental links to breast cancer.
  
  
• You, Your Breast Cancer Group and Prescription Drug Ads
  "Now, predict your risk of breast cancer. And act on it. There is something you can do." "Look at Diane now! The acne solution for women only." "A LESSON in guys: never play hard to get. Be hard to get."