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- Environmental Factors
- Cancer Prevention Allies
- Activist Resources
- Self-Help
- Books & Recommended Reading
- You Tube, Videos & DVDs
- Blogs & Media
Environmental Factors
GENERAL:
- Toxic Trespass: How safe are your children?
- Unknown Waters: Cancer and the Environment Factsheet
- “Docs Talk” Series: Environmental chemicals and cancer by Queen’s Cancer Researcher Dr. Kristan Aronson
BREAST CANCER:
- Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (Cornell University)
- Canadian Expert Panel on Tobacco Smoke and Breast Cancer Risk, April 2009
- Women and Alcohol: a Women’s Health Resource. This Canadian resource was written by women for women to provide useful information about alcohol and the cancer risks associated with heavy drinking.
- Breast Cancer and exposure to hormonally active chemicals: An appraisal of the scientific evidence and other Resources, Chemicals, Health and Environment Monitoring Trust
- Environmental Risks and Breast Cancer (Vassar College)
- Low levels of BPA raise breast cancer risk in rat offspring
- Canadian Cancer Society Breast Cancer Report, April 2007
- Endocrine Disruptors and Breast Cancer (video)
TOXINS:
- No More Toxic Tub: Getting Contaminants Out of Children’s Bath & Personal Care Products
- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Centre of Environmental Oncology
- Environmental Defence Toxic Nation Website
- Chemicals, Health and Environment Monitoring Trust
- Phasing out the Toxic Trio: A Review of Popular Nail Polish Brands
- Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy Hazardous Waste Resources
- Safer Families, Healthier Communities: The Health Case for Reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act
- The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX): Critical Windows of Development
- Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement
- Chemicals Health Monitor
- Watch the Trailer: Toxic Bust
- Safe Cosmetics Campaign
PESTICIDES:
- Chemical Trespass: Pesticides in Our Bodies, Pesticide Action Network North America
- Exploring the Connection: A State of the Science Conference on Pesticides and Cancer,
Canadian Cancer Society Conference Presentations - Canadian Environmental Law Association resources in support of an Ontario-wide pesticide ban
- Pesticide Free? Oui! Analysis of Quebec’s Pesticide Policy and Recommendations, David Suzuki Foundation
- Parental Exposure to Pesticides and Childhood Brain Cancer: U.S. Atlantic Coast Childhood Brain Cancer Study, National Institutes of Health (Februray 2009)
- A Chemical Reaction: A documentary scheduled for release in 2009 that tells the story
of the Hudson, Québec pesticide ban (Trailer)
TAR SANDS:
- The Pembina Institute, Oilsands Watch
- Environmental Defence, Canada’s Toxic Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project on Earth
- Polaris Institute: Tar Sands Watch
- Canaries in the Tar-Sand Mines
- CBC News, Fort Chipewyan: A Town’s Toxic Questions
ASBESTOS:
- Exporting Harm: How Canada Markets Asbestos to the Developing World, By Kathleen Ruff, October 2008
- Banning Asbestos in Asia: Campaigns & Strategies, Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational Accident Victims
- Canadian Medical Association Journal: Asbestos Mortality: a Canadian Export
- Letter to the Prime Minister on Asbestos from Laval University Faculty of Medicine
- Devra Lee Davis Foundation Asbestos Resources
- World Asbestos Report
- Chrysotile Asbestos Statement and Summary, Chrysotile Asbestos Expert Panel, Health Canada (Français)
- Canadian Cancer Society letter to the Prime Minister to stop supporting the Asbestos industry
- International Agency for Research on Cancer reconfirms Asbestos dangers
- Read the Report: India’s Asbestos Timebomb (WATCH VIDEO)
- Institut national de santé publique du Québec, The Epidemiology of Asbestos-related Diseases in Quebec
- Mesothelioma Support Website
CELLPHONES:
- Interview with Dr. Magda Havas on the dangers of cellphone use (click part #2), CBC Radio (May 2010)
- HESA Testimony: Radio Frequency Radiation and Health from Dr. Magda Havas, B.Sc., Ph.D. (May 2010)
- The dangers of cellphones, Devra Lee Davis Foundation:
- Environmental Health Perspectives, March 2009, Mobile phone use may increase brain cancer risk
- CBC Marketplace: Are cellphones safe for kids?
- WBAI Radio Special: The Shadow Side of the Wireless Revolution
- Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Protection Advisory and Position Statement on Cellphones, January 2009
INCINERATION:
OCCUPATIONAL:
- Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer, Collaborative on Health and the Environment
- Canadian Labour Congress Prevent Cancer Campaign
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- Cancer in firefighters due largely to radio-frequency radiation exposure, not inhaled carcinogens (May 2009)
- Vinyl chloride propellant in hair spray and angiosarcoma of the liver among hairdressers and barbers, Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC
LIFESTYLE:
- Indoor Tanning Linked to Melanoma, MedPage Today (May 2010)
PLASTICS & BPA:
- New Report: North Americans Routinely Exposed to BPA from Food Cans, Environmental Defence (May 2010)
- The big test for bisphenol A (BPA), Nature, Vol 464|22 (April 2010)
- PVC Information
- Bisphenol A (BPA): Q&A
- Low levels of BPA raise breast cancer risk in rat offspring
- PowerPoint Presentation on Plastics: Click Here
NUCLEAR:
- PCN Presentation to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission on Tritium
- Nuclear Power: The wrong choice, New Report from the David Suzuki Foundation
Cancer Prevention Allies
- Ban Asbestos Canada
- Breast Cancer Action Montreal
- Breast Cancer Fund
- Canadian Health Coalition
- Canadian Cancer Society
- Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
- Canadian Environmental Law Association
- Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy
- Cancer Prevention Coalition
- Cancer Prevention and Education Society (UK)
- Clean Production Action
- Collaborative on Health and Environment: Cancer Working Group
- David Suzuki Foundation
- Devra Lee Davis Charitable Foundation
- Environmental Defence
- Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia
- Environmental Working Group
- Health and Environmental Alliance
- Labour Environmental Alliance Society
- Mesothelioma Support Website
- Pesticide Action Network North America
- Philippine Breast Cancer Network
- Pollution Watch
- Saunders-Matthey Cancer Prevention Coalition
- Science and Environmental Health Network
- Silent Spring Institute
- The Pembina Institute
- Toronto Cancer Prevention Coalition
- Toxic-Free Canada
- Victoria Cancer Resource Centre
- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
- Women’s Healthy Environments Network
- Zero Footprint Network
Activist Resources
- Canadian Environmental Law Association, An Action Plan and Model Toxics Use Reduction Law for Ontario
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) Environmental Registry
- Collaborative on Health and the Environment, Consensus Statement on Cancer and the Environment / Oct. 2008
- Stop Cancer Where It Starts Campaign Guide:
- PCN Questions for Election Candidates in the 2008 Federal Election
- Cancer: It’s About Prevention. It’s About Time!, PCN Conference proceedings, May 2007
- Health Care Without Harm Coalition
- Sandra Steingraber’s Website
- Above the Fold Environmental Health News
- Chasing the Cancer Answer, CBC Marketplace, with Wendy Mesley
- How to Identify your Member of Parliament
- Contact Information for Members of Parliament
- Members of Parliament: Voting Records
Self-Help
- Guide to Less Toxic Products
- Cancer-Smart Consumer Guide
- Green Home Toxipedia
- The Green Guide for Everyday Living
- Women and Alcohol: a Women’s Health Resource. This Canadian resource was written by women for women to provide useful information about alcohol and the cancer risks associated with heavy drinking.
- Consumer Product Information GoodGuide
- Video on Safe Cosmetics (Note: This U.S. video focuses on the FDA, but the same situation applies in Canada)
- Food for Cancer Prevention
- Where to buy organics in Canada
- 100 Mile Diet: Websites to help you find healthy, local food
- Planet Natural: Tips for a Healthy Pesticide-Free Garden
- What You Can Do! Everyday Actions to Protect Your Health, Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE)
- What We Can Do! Community Efforts to to Protect Our Health, Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE)
Books and Recommended Reading
- The Secret History of the War on Cancer, by Devra Davis
- When Smoke Ran Like Water, by Devra Davis
- Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski & John Peter Meyers
- Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic, by Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey & Anne Wordsworth
- Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know and Don’t Know About Cancer, by Robert Proctor
- Living Downstream: A scientist’s personal investigation of cancer and the environment, by Sandra Steingraber:
- Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law, and Endangers Your Health:
- Life’s Delicate Balance: Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer, by Dr. Janette Sherman:
- Cancer-Gate: How to Win the Losing Cancer War, by Dr. Samuel Epstein
- The Politics of Cancer Revisited, by Dr. Samuel Epstein
- Safe Shoppers’ Bible, with Dr. David Steinman
- Ill-Health Canada: Putting Food and Drug Company Profits Ahead of Safety, by Michael McBane
- An Unreasonable Woman, by Diane Wilson
- Having Faith, by Sandra Steingraber
- Altering Eden: The Feminization of Nature, by Deborah Cadbury
- Dying from Dioxin, by Lois Gibbs
- Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor, by Steve Lerner
- The China Study details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
- Toxic Sludge is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies & the Public Relations Industry, by John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton
- Breast Cancer Action Montreal - Recommended Reading
You Tube, Videos & DVDs
- Toxic Trespass: How safe are your children?
- Chasing the Cancer Answer, CBC Marketplace
- NOVA Video on the Topic of o the topic of Epigenetics: “The Ghost in your Genes”
- Safe Cosmetics Video: A Closer Look (This US video focuses on the FDA, but the same situation applies in Canada)
- A Chemical Reaction: A documentary of the Hudson, Québec pesticide ban (Trailer)
- Endocrine Disruptors and Breast Cancer
- Devra Lee Davis You Tube Channel:
- Exposure - Environmental Links to Breast Cancer:
- If You Love Our Children
- Trade Secrets, A Bill Moyers Report:
- Blue Vinyl
- Erin Brockovich (available at local video stores)
- A Civil Action (available at local video stores)
- The Insider (available at local video stores)
Media & Blogs
- Ottawa Organics Blog and Green Living Ottawa Blog
- Alive Magazine and Alternatives Journal
- CBC News and CTV News
- The Globe and Mail and the National Post
- The Tyee
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