Alcohol
Alcohol consumption increases a woman’s risk for breast cancer. By limiting how much you drink, you can reduce your risk.
Posts with Type: Report
Chemicals in Consumer Products
Everyday consumer products like beauty products, cleaning products, and food packaging can contain harmful chemicals linked to breast cancer.
Diet and Nutrition
The more we limit eating processed meat, and foods that are high in saturated fat, salt, and sugar, we can address multiple risk factors for breast cancer.
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding protects mothers against all types of breast cancer because it causes protective physiological changes in the breast. The longer one breastfeeds, the greater the protective benefit.
A Guide to Cleaning Product Ingredients
This guide aims to make it easier to understand what’s on a cleaning product ingredient label and what’s changing as a result of the California Cleaning Product Ingredient Right to Know Act of 2017 (CA SB 258).
Race, Power, and Inequities
Breast cancer incidence is not distributed equally among different ethnic or racial communities or groups, due to a number of complex, often interrelated factors.
California Breast Cancer Plan: Paths to Prevention
Paths to Prevention: The California Breast Cancer Primary Prevention Plan is the first ever comprehensive primary prevention plan for breast cancer. This action plan to reduce 23 breast cancer risk factors offers systemic interventions, rather than individual actions, to stem rising breast cancer rates.
Right to Know: Exposing Toxic Fragrance Chemicals Report
Our landmark report exposes harmful fragrance chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects, endocrine disruption and other adverse health effects in everyday beauty, personal care, and cleaning products.
Work and Breast Cancer
We found evidence that work as flight attendants, physicians and nurses, retail and sales associates, teachers, hairdressers and cosmetologists and production workers may be linked to increased risk of breast cancer.
State of the Evidence 2017
Read our Executive Summary or full report to examine the expanding, compelling data linking radiation and chemicals in our environment to the incidence of breast cancer.