Pesticides and Breast Cancer: A Wake Up Call
Written
by PAN AP scientist and coordinator of PAN Aotearoa/New Zealand, Dr.
Meriel Watts PhD, the book provides a compelling argument for
preventing the exposure of women and girls to many of today’s commonly
used pesticides. This collation of scientific evidence stretching over
more than 30 years indicts 98 pesticides—including insecticides,
herbicides and fungicides—one common adjuvant and two contaminants of
pesticide formulations, as having the potential to cause breast cancer.
Breast
cancer is by far the most common cause of cancer in women throughout
the world, and incidence is escalating in the Asia Pacific region. New
Zealand has one of the highest rates in the world. It is time for
systemic change in our attitudes to pesticides: we need to implement
the precautionary principle and substitute safer ecological methods of
managing pests, weeds and disease, for those pesticides exposed here as
having the potential to cause breast cancer.
"Invaluable,
comprehensive, impressive, thorough review of the extensive literature
on the ways that pesticides affect our health and that of the entire
planet. State of the art assessment. A wake up call!", states Dr. Devra
Davis, author of “The Secret History of the War on Cancer”, Basic
Books, 2007; Director, Center for Environmental Oncology, University of
Pittsburgh Cancer Institute; and Professor, Department of Epidemiology,
Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, United
States of America.
This book is available for NZD $20 including postage and packaging anywhere in
New Zealand.
Please contact Dr Meriel Watts
