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Thermography: a role in prevention and early detection of breast cancer?
By Meg Sears, BASc, PhD and Magda Havas, BSc, PhD Every day, 65 Canadian women are diagnosed with breast cancer and 14 die from it (1). You might think that…
Societal implications of a new occupational and environmental cancer study
By Michael Gilbertson PhD
Should breast cancer be compensated as a workplace disease?
By Michael Gilbertson PhD There has never been a workplace compensation claim in Canada awarded for breast cancer, but recent changes in the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifications…
The rise in breast cancer in the workplace: A call to action
By Bev Thorpe Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Canadian women and for more than two decades now we have known that some endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)…
Anti-breast cancer: The ‘Three Strikes’ carcinogen to avoid
By Kathy Freston You may have heard a lot recently about how a chemical that is formed from cooking meat is carcinogenic (cancer-causing), but recent studies show that the scope…
Could women be dialing in breast cancer by carrying a cell phone in their bra?
By Devra Davis, PhD, MPH Donna Jayne is a busy California mother of three dealing with the constant demands of being a conscientious wife and mother. This has kept her…
Why men and women with breast cancer should avoid ELFs
By Magda Havas, BSc, PhD The ELFs in the title do not refer to little green men but rather to extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic fields that are produced when…
Did you know . . . six facts about cancer
By Magda Havas Did you know that in the 1920s in the U.K. and a few years later in the U.S. there was a never-before-seen spike in the incidence of…
Fracking, shale gas and cancer: Health risks at every step
By Barb Harris “We’ve got to push the pause button, and maybe we’ve got to push the stop button” on fracking, said Dr. Adam Law, an endocrinologist at Weill Cornell…