Welcome to the National Breast Cancer Prevention Project

Did you know that getting an annual mammogram does not prevent breast cancer? In spite of what you have heard, a mammogram is merely one method of screening for a tumor that may have been growing for the past two or twenty years.

The good news is that science indicates that 90% of breast cancer cases can probably be prevented! Now we just need to change the conversation from “finding the cure,” to “finding the causes and the cure.”

We at the National Breast Cancer Prevention Project are dedicated to assisting you by offering easy access to a wealth of information specific to your needs. These are just a few of the topics we provide information about:

• Ways to decrease your risk of developing breast cancer
• The limited benefits of an annual mammogram
• The unfolding dangers of some cosmetics, body care products, food additives, prescription drugs and pesticides

By reading our comprehensive articles, you can begin to increase your knowledge about the links between breast cancer and the following:

• Oral contraceptives
• Hormone replacement drugs
• Fertility treatments
• Milk with bovine growth hormones
• Parabens in cosmetics and body care products
• Food additives
• Air and water pollution
• Radiation

As you visit the various sections of our website, you’ll begin to change the conversation by developing a new understanding of what we are now seeing as an unnecessary national breast cancer epidemic.

We’ve spent far too long detecting and treating the disease, which means we’ve become efficient at processing more and more sick people without identifying promising avenues of prevention."

- Devra Davis, author of The Secret History of the War on Cancer, Basic Books (2007) and Director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.

As the epidemic rages on, 240,000 U.S. women will receive a first-time breast cancer diagnosis this year. We can lower this number; we just need to educate, legislate and fund prevention programs that actually stop cancer before it starts.

Today 1 woman in 7 can expect to receive a breast cancer diagnosis in her lifetime; in the 1960s , this number was only 1 woman in 20. The U.S. breast cancer industry earns more profits each time another woman begins a new drug or receives a new breast cancer diagnosis. But this is only one of the many industries that are now blocking national Breast Cancer Prevention Legislation.