[Still Thinking]

How about stress? We certainly have plenty of it, and perhaps breast cancer is particularly sensitive to it.

[freebilly]

Abortion....

[rellimpank]

--living long enough to get it may be part of the explanation for "developed" world vs. the third world--just like all cancers.

Not many people died of cancer a two hundred years ago--plague, pneumonia, infections, etc., got them first---

[Viking2002]

Oh, the enviroNazi crowd is going to glom onto this one like buzzards on a squashed armadillo. Electricity - the energy that drives the 'evil capitalist machine' - is killing people. Let's ban it, and go back to how Mother Earth intended Her furry little human animals to live - running around naked in harmony with nature.

I can see it coming.

[small voice in the wilderness]

News to me. I've never even heard of Electric Light Abortions. If you get my drift...

[dalereed]

This is nothing but a long winded plea for government research money. Their last grant must have run out.

[jocon307]

THis is interesting. My mom in law had breast cancer, and she worked the night shift for years as a nurse.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

It's all the stuff in our environment: pesticides, cleaning products, bleach, furniture polish, outgassing of carpets, car exhaust. Additional factors for women: makeup, makeup remover, hair dye, nail polish, nail polish remover. Other factors for women: Women spend more time in the home, and do more cleaning (using an array of toxic products). Women are also more "delicate" than men - with smaller muscles, lighter frames, different anatomy. Anything toxic in the environment is going to hit us harder. (For example, women can't drink as much alcohol as men.) As an added "bonus", women have every vitamin and mineral depleted from their bodies at childbirth, leaving them physically vulnerable.

[BriarBey]

...now I have the perfect excuse for my husband on the lights out policy.....roflmao.

[Celtic Rose]

i read a study that said that breast feeding could possibly reduce the occurences of breast cancer, and this could be why it occurs less frequently in less developed countries, because they are generally having more children, and they breast feed them instead of using formula.

[Mr. Jazzy]

It's carrots!!! Like Rush said, just about everyone who has ever died, ATE CARROTS!!!

We need to recognize the demon "orange threat" that is before us and ban carrots, IMMEDIATELY!!!

(Sarcasm, in butter and cream sauce, with just a hint of garlic.)

[CyberAnt]

"it must have something to do with industrialized society"

Or .. It's all America's fault! (as usual)

I still say it's connected to abortion or miscarriage in some way. One of the first reactions the body has to pregnancy occurs in the breast tissue - where the milk glands begin to prepare to feed the baby.

[nuke rocketeer]

How 'bout the facts that people live longer and we have better detection methods? This guy has been on a jihad against electricity for 20+ years. Every time he needs more funding, he comes out with a dubious link between electrical/magnetic fields and cancer. This brings out the enviro-weenies, hungry trial lawyers and utility haters in droves to give him cash.

[nothingnew]

Hide your breastes!

FMCDH(BITS)

[Askel5]

=== Richard Stevens wants to shed some light on the murky origins of breast cancer. The University of Connecticut cancer epidemiologist says there still is no scientific consensus about why the incidence of the disease is so much higher in the dev


Hey ... how about the birth control which jacks with her hormones incessantly?

You think we'll ever see this tack investigated? Strangely enough, there's plenty of scientific evidence supporting the connection already. Odd that it gets no play in the media (or funding from the goverment).

[TASMANIANRED]

"We knew more about the cause of breast cancer 20 years ago than we do today," Stevens said. "What we do know is that it must have something to do with industrialized society."

This is total b/s. What did they do get stupid. Did they loose the research. Did they all just get amnesia. Mean while they refuse to research the legitimate link between breast cancer and abortion.

[maine-iac7]

There's a much more believable hypothesis put forth in the book: "Dressed to Kill." by a husband and wife research team, Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer.

Their premise is "Their interpretation is that tight clothing inhibits the proper functioning of the lymphatic system (an internal network of vessels and nodes that flushes wastes from the body) and leads to a buildup of carcinogenic compounds in the constricted areas."

They got deep into this research after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I have read it and it makes a lot of sense - if the lymphatic system is restricted from doing it's job, it can cause illness.

Also, the "electric light" theorists pose that since more women in developed countries get breast cancer than people in primitive areas might be the link - well, women in the primitive area don't constrict their bodies with bras...

Sydney Ross Singer received a B.S. in biology from the University of Utah in 1979. He then spent two years in the biochemistry Ph.D. program at Duke University, followed by another two years at Duke in the anthropology Ph.D. program, receiving a Master’s Degree. He then attended the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, Texas on a full academic scholarship, where he spent one year in the medical humanities Ph.D. program, and received an additional two years training in medical school. Soma Grismaijer received an associate’s degree from the College of Marin in the behavioral sciences, and a bachelor of arts from Sonoma State University in environmental studies and planning.)

[RightWhale]

I am going to go sit in the dark and listen to this joke of a football game.

[CDHart]

I can't help but think there may be a connection -- although I think that deterioration of the immune system is the bottom line cause of most cancers. I had lung cancer and was given less than a year to live in 1998. Thanks to God, good doctors and a special diet, I'm still here annoying liberals. But I do think that electrical fields of some sort could contribute to deterioration of the immune system and encourage the growth of mutated cells.

Carolyn