Why are so many of us getting breast cancer?

Jon Davies, running his first London 10K
for Breast Cancer UK

Breast Cancer UK is an independent charity that relies on the help and support of the general public. Whatever your circumstances, if you are determined to help prevent breast cancer, there are many ways you can support Breast Cancer UK.

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Every time you put on your makeup, clean your house or use plastic you are exposed to toxic chemicals. Scientists are increasingly convinced that our routine exposure to these hazardous chemicals means that more and more of us will develop breast cancer.

Cancer rates have soared since it became routine to add synthetic chemicals to our everyday household and personal care products and to release them into the environment. Today, even though detection and treatment of breast cancer is improving, it has become the most common form of cancer in the UK amongst women – as many as one in eight of us will develop it at some point in our lives - and the numbers are still rising.

The good news is that we can reduce our exposure to many of these chemicals by taking some easy steps. Yet the government still puts our health at risk by approving the use of hazardous chemicals and by refusing to include environmental pollutants as risk factors in its National Cancer Plan. The cost of this inaction to the NHS – and to you and I – is ethically unacceptable.

Breast Cancer UK campaigns to prevent breast cancer by putting pressure on the Government to cut cancer-causing and hormone disrupting chemicals and by spreading the word on which chemicals to avoid in the meantime.

Together we can help prevent breast cancer.