Breast Cancer Film

Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 01:04:05
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From: Sharon Labchuk <slabchuk@isn.net>
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NEW BREAST CANCER FILM 

	In the 1950's, a woman was at a one-in-twenty risk of developing breast
cancer in her lifetime.  Today this risk has skyrocketed to one in eight.
But seventy to eighty percent of women with breast cancer have none of the
"official" risk factors.  Coincidentally, over the past 50 years our world
has become increasingly contaminated by toxic chemicals, like pesticides,
to which we are routinely exposed. 
	The new Canadian film,  EXPOSURE: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer,
examines the effects of toxics on our health and promotes the importance of
primary prevention as a key strategy in stopping cancer.  It is narrated
and hosted by breast cancer survivor Olivia Newton-John and features
physicians, epidemiologists, activists and other survivors who speak
forcefully about the need for generating the social and political changes
necessary for a cleaner and safer world.  This powerful film played to
resounding applause and ovation twice at the World Conference on Breast
Cancer in Kingston, Ontario last summer.
	EXPOSURE is co-produced by Martha Butterfield and Francine Zuckerman in
association with The Women and Environments Education and Development
(WEED) Foundation.  The Toronto-based group, The Women's Network on Health
and the Environment, distributes the 53 minute film.
	You can see EXPOSURE  in Charlottetown on Wednesday, March 25 at 7:00 pm
at the Inn on the Hill.  The viewings are sponsored by Earth Action and
Women's Network PEI.  For more information contact Sharon Labchuk at 621-0719.
	



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