Why this project is important
One hundred and eighty-two thousand women will contract breast cancer this year. Forty-one thousand will die of it; every eleven minutes we will lose another woman to the disease. This documentary film makes these statistics real by following one woman who is diagnosed, treated and recovers from breast cancer. Robin demands to know why she got breast cancer, posing questions about their exposure to environmental toxics. Her intimate story brings the visually hidden experience of breast cancer into light, and motivates us to ask why so much illness and why don't we know how to stop it?
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In 1980, the famous poet Audre Lourde wrote from her hospital bed:
Cancer is not just another degenerative and unavoidable disease of the ageing process. It has distinct and identifiable causes, and these are mainly exposures to chemicals of physical agents in the environment.
In 1998, scientist and writer Sandra Steingraber wrote:
Banned pesticides, like fugitives from justice, have not entirely disappeared. We have forgotten about them, but they are still among us. They frequent foreign ports. They languish underground. But they are beginning to surface again in the tissues of women with breast cancer...
Why Prevention?
Preventing
breast cancer rather than just treating it is difficult. Brave
individuals have led this movement. They have spoken out about the
causes of the growing breast cancer epidemic. Rachel Carson said in
1961:
Today we find our world filled with cancer-producing agents. An attack on
cancer that is concentrated wholly or even largely on therapeutic
measures...will fail because it leaves untouched the great reservoirs of
carcinogenic agents which would continue to claim new victims...
Possibilities for making our world less toxic and safer abound. Breast
cancer rates can be decreased.
Watch this film and find out how.
Calendar
| event date | What it's about | where |
|---|---|---|
| June 25-28th | Official Selection: Philadelphia Independent Film Festival. | Film Festival |
| 17 Jun 2009 | New Book: Are Everyday Products From Cosmetics To Household Cleaners Causing The High Rates Of Breast Cancer? | Medical News TODAY |
| 17 Jun 2009 | "No Family History" Examines Toxins in Cosmetics | www.bellasugar.com |
| 8 Jun 2009 | War on breast cancer must shift to prevention | Environmental Health News |
| Progressive Radio Network, 2:35 EST | Progressive Radio Network, 2:35 EST | |
| 11.14.2007 | Appearance on Channel 9 News (D.C., Maryland and Virginia) with Andrea Roane interviews Dr. Sabrina McCormick about the film - - (windows media file format) | Watch the interview here |