Carcinogens Galore

The motto of Breast Cancer Awareness Month is “Early Detection is Your Best Protection”. Mammograms are the front line of defense.? Celebrities like Rosie O’Donnell offer free t-shirts with the honourable words “I’ve been Squished” if you’ll make a date with your local x-ray department.So let’s all join in and wave our pink ribbons and don those running shoes and take to the streets, right?
Wait! Before the emotional frenzy of this call to arms sweeps you up, there is something you should perhaps know. Breast Cancer Awareness month’s primary sponsor and mastermind of the event in 1985 was Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, now known as AstraZeneca. Zeneca is the company that manufactures the controversial and widely prescribed breast cancer drug, Tamoxifen. Did you know all TV, radio and print media campaigns in America are paid for and must be approved by Zeneca?
Perhaps we can forgive Zeneca’s heavy involvement with carcinogenic chemicals, since it researched and patented the most popular breast cancer treatment, Tamoxifen, which grosses 500 million dollars a year. Perhaps not. On May 16, 2000 the New York Times reported that the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences listed substances that are known to cause cancer.
Tamoxifen was included in that list!!
It is known that Tamoxifen causes uterine cancer, liver cancer and gastro-intestinal cancer. After just two to three years of use, Tamoxifen will increase the incidence of uterine cancer by two to three times. The treatment for uterine cancer is a hysterectomy.
In addition, Tamoxifen increased the risk of strokes, blood clots, eye damage, menopausal symptoms, and depression.The biggest shock of all is the fact that Tamoxifenwill increase the risk of breast cancer!The journal Science published a study from Duke University Medical Center in 1999 showing that after 2 – 5 years, Tamoxifen actually initiated the growth of breast cancer! So, Zeneca, the originator of Breast Cancer Awareness month is the manufacturer of carcinogenic petrochemicals, carcinogenic pollutants and a breast cancer drug that causes at least four different types of cancer in women, including breast cancer. I ask you to stop and think, “Is something wrong with this picture?”