Think Before You Go Pink???
Breast Cancer Awareness Month was sponsored and formed in 1985 by Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, now known as AstraZeneca. All ads for Breast Cancer Awareness Month are paid for and must be approved by AstraZeneca.
AstraZeneca makes fungicides, herbicides and pesticides. One of its products, Acetochlor, is a pesticide recognized as a direct cause of breast cancer. Its Perry, Ohio chemical plant is one of the largest sources of potential cancer-causing pollution in the US. In 1996, it spit 53,000 pounds of known cancer causing agents into the air.
In addition to creating cancer-causing chemicals, AstraZeneca also patented Tamoxifen, the most popular drug used to treat breast cancer. Tamoxifen has gross sales of $500 million dollars a year. On May 16, 2000, the New York Times reported that the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences included Tamoxifen on its list of substances that are known to cause cancer.
Tamoxifen is known to cause uterine cancer, liver cancer and gastro-intestinal cancer. After just two to three years of use, Tamoxifen will increase the incidence of uterine cancer by two to three times. The treatment for uterine cancer is a hysterectomy. In addition, Tamoxifen increases the risk of strokes, blood clots, eye damage, menopausal symptoms, and depression. One doctor describes Tamoxifen as “… a garbage drug that made it to the top of the scrap heap.”
Do You Know Where Pink Ribbon Money is Going?
In 1999, the journal Science published a study from Duke University Medical Center that showed that after 2 – 5 years, Tamoxifen, the most popular drug for treating breast cancer, actually initiated the growth of breast cancer.
This means that AstraZeneca, the originator of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, is the manufacturer of cancer-causing chemicals, pollutants that cause cancer and a breast cancer treatment drug that causes several different types of cancer, including breast cancer.
