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Breast cancer awareness is not enough: Public health strategies need to be based on prevention – The Conversation CA

Awareness-raising alone is an ineffective solution to the breast cancer epidemic. We need more action on primary prevention to limit exposures to known and susp…

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Im tired of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Forgive me, but as a researcher studying how we understand information on links between environmental and occupational exposures and breast cancer, Ive grown weary of yet another October decorated in pink, promoting the same message of awareness. The message itself has become tired, and awareness-raising alone is an ineffective solution to the breast cancer epidemic.
Year after year, we miss opportunities for critical interventions into the primary pre…

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