Life's Delicate Balance: Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer [Hardcover]

Janette Sherman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 156032869X | ISBN-13: 978-1560328698 | Publication Date: February 29, 2000 | Edition: 1

With breast cancer rates soaring, Life's Delicate Balance defines and documents many causes highlighting means to prevention.
Applicable to other cancers as well, this book is being published at a critical time. Patients, their families, environmental activists, physicians, attorneys, and all of those working toward prevention will find this book interesting, informative, and insightful.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Writing for the general reader, Sherman, a practicing internist and the author of Chemical Exposure and Disease, explores the numerous associations between environmental pollution and breast cancer. Her investigation specifically targets hormones (natural and synthetic), radiation (including mammography), and toxic chemicals as prime historical and current cancer-causing agents. Undoubtedly, Sherman's text will prove controversial as the scientific jury is still out on exactly how to prevent cancer and precisely how and when the genetic changes that result in malignancy occur. Rachel Carson introduced the public to the links between pollution and breast cancer in her groundbreaking Silent Spring (1962). Few readers today will be unaware of pollution's public health implications, so this book best serves as a continued clarion call to clean up the environment. Overall, it is well written and provides a riveting account of corporate and institutional (mis)investments in the Cancer Wars. Recommended for public libraries.
-Gail Hendler, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr. Lib., New York
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

A strongly worded alert to the environmental causes of breast cancer, and an equally strong call for political and personal action. . . . Sherman lays the burden of escalating breast cancer rates squarely at the feet of environmental polluters. . . . [Sherman's] arguments are compelling . . . true advances in conquering cancer will only come when we 'understand the connection between the loss of personal health and worldwide pollution from toxic chemicals, ionizing radiation, and endocrine-altering chemicals.' . . . Valuable warnings for women and a passionate, well-based explanation of one particular medical viewpoint.
–Kirkus, February 15, 2000

...Rachel Carson introduced the public to the links between pollution and breast cancer in her groundbreaking Silent Spring....[Life's Delicate Balance] serves as a continued clarion call to clean up the environment....it provides a riveting account of corporate and institutional (mis)investments in the Cancer Wars. Recommended for public libraries.
–Library Journal, 2/00

A study of toxic factors in the environment that cause cancer, this book explains causes of the disease and discusses political and economic factors that perpetuate the cancer epidemic.
–Acres U.S.A., November 2001 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis; 1 edition (February 29, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156032869X
• ISBN-13: 978-1560328698
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,637,084 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For a reality check--a must read!, July 9, 2000

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This review is from: Life's Delicate Balance: Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer (Paperback)

This book is an eye-opener. I am not a radical environmentalist, but I do care about what we do to ourselves and our children. This book is about the indiscriminate use of chemicals & radiation and the results of that use. It is focused on Breast cancer, but can be applied to over all health issues in general. It is easy to read and comprehend. I highly recommend.