What does biomonitoring have to do with breast cancer?
The increasing rates of breast cancer have paralleled the proliferation of synthetic chemicals since World War II. In the past 50 years, the lifetime risk of breast cancer has nearly tripled in the United States. In the 1940s, a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer was 1 in 22. Today, a woman’s lifetime risk is 1 in 7 and rising. Measuring potentially harmful environmental chemicals in the body can help us understand what chemicals we are actually exposed to, and their links to disease like breast cancer.
