Combining all age groups, white (non-Hispanic) women are more likely to develop breast cancer than black women. However, black women are more likely to die of breast cancer than white women.
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Jun 01, 2002
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.
Plans are underway for Alliance members to meet with each of the gubernatorial candidates, to educate them about the Child Health Platform and ask for their endorsement of. The Alliance is also planning a gubernatorial candidates’ forum in August, to highlight the importance of these issues and seek commitment to the platform from the candidates.
Cancer in children is on the rise, and experts are concerned that more children may have autism, attention deficits, hyperactivity, learning disabilities, and allergies. Children, whose developing bodies are uniquely vulnerable to toxins, are exposed to thousands of untested chemicals in everyday products. Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, says, "Childhood cancer has jumped from the realm of a medical rarity to the most common disease killer of American schoolchildren within a few decades." The link of exposure to environmental contaminants in childhood and the development of breast cancer in adulthood is also of growing concern to breast cancer researchers.
The AHT Child Health Campaign platform calls for the Governor to take steps to protect child health in Massachusetts. The platform addresses issues of toxic cleaning products, breastmilk contamination, PVC plastic and latex use in hospitals, mercury, toxic building materials in schools, air pollution, and pesticide use. The campaign’s new brochure illustrates the dangers inherent in each of these issues, and offers seven specific recommendations to the Governor. In addition, the campaign asks the Governor to "require all state agencies to implement a comprehensive reform of their policies and regulations, in order to mandate proactive, precautionary action to protect children from toxic hazards."
Concerned about occupational exposures to toxic chemicals, representatives from labor have joined the Alliance, and are working to ensure that workers are not displaced as safer technologies and materials are implemented. The MBCC is working with representatives from IUE-CWA Local 201, as well as the Boston Urban Asthma Coalition, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Mass. Parent Teacher Association, the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition, the Mass. Public Health Association, Mass. Nurses’ Association, Nuestras Raices, Women’s Community Cancer Project, Toxics Action Center, the Hilltown Anti-Herbicide Coalition, and many other organizations to build a critical mass of support to reverse the "count the bodies" approach to action on toxic hazards.
Please contact the MBCC offices 1-800-649-6222 if you would like to become more active in this campaign.
The Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow Pursues Commitment from Gubernatorial Candidates to Child Health Action Plan
Stop the Epidemic: The Newsletter of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer CoalitionJun 01, 2002
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.
Plans are underway for Alliance members to meet with each of the gubernatorial candidates, to educate them about the Child Health Platform and ask for their endorsement of. The Alliance is also planning a gubernatorial candidates’ forum in August, to highlight the importance of these issues and seek commitment to the platform from the candidates.
Cancer in children is on the rise, and experts are concerned that more children may have autism, attention deficits, hyperactivity, learning disabilities, and allergies. Children, whose developing bodies are uniquely vulnerable to toxins, are exposed to thousands of untested chemicals in everyday products. Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, says, "Childhood cancer has jumped from the realm of a medical rarity to the most common disease killer of American schoolchildren within a few decades." The link of exposure to environmental contaminants in childhood and the development of breast cancer in adulthood is also of growing concern to breast cancer researchers.
The AHT Child Health Campaign platform calls for the Governor to take steps to protect child health in Massachusetts. The platform addresses issues of toxic cleaning products, breastmilk contamination, PVC plastic and latex use in hospitals, mercury, toxic building materials in schools, air pollution, and pesticide use. The campaign’s new brochure illustrates the dangers inherent in each of these issues, and offers seven specific recommendations to the Governor. In addition, the campaign asks the Governor to "require all state agencies to implement a comprehensive reform of their policies and regulations, in order to mandate proactive, precautionary action to protect children from toxic hazards."
Concerned about occupational exposures to toxic chemicals, representatives from labor have joined the Alliance, and are working to ensure that workers are not displaced as safer technologies and materials are implemented. The MBCC is working with representatives from IUE-CWA Local 201, as well as the Boston Urban Asthma Coalition, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Mass. Parent Teacher Association, the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition, the Mass. Public Health Association, Mass. Nurses’ Association, Nuestras Raices, Women’s Community Cancer Project, Toxics Action Center, the Hilltown Anti-Herbicide Coalition, and many other organizations to build a critical mass of support to reverse the "count the bodies" approach to action on toxic hazards.
Please contact the MBCC offices 1-800-649-6222 if you would like to become more active in this campaign.
Published by Stop the Epidemic!
The Newsletter of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition
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The Newsletter of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition
http://mbcc.org
To view our newsletter archives, please go to:
http://mbcc.org/acatalog.php?id=1
Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition
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MISSION STATEMENT: "Defining breast cancer as a political issue, the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition challenges all obstacles to the eradication of this disease."
MISSION STATEMENT: "Defining breast cancer as a political issue, the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition challenges all obstacles to the eradication of this disease."
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