Life's Delicate Balance

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1.All Life is Connected 2.The Delicate Balance of Life 3.Risks for Breast Cancer 4.Breast Cancer Diagnosis 5.Radiation 6.Radiation 7.Hormones One 8.Hormones Too 9.Tamoxifen 10.Post-Menopausal 11.The Genetic Connection 12.The Breast Cancer Epidemic on Long Island 13.Diseases in Men 14.Questions, History, Ethics, and Morality 15.The Cancer Movement 16.What the Citizen Can Do 17.Sources of Information and Action Index

"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."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