Breast Cancer: An Environmental Disease
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Abstract
Breast cancer is a major health problem that is not adequately addressed through the current seek and destroy approach. It requires a systemic environmental approach – one that recognizes breast cancer as an environmental disease and therefore a disease that can be prevented by implementing changes to the environment.
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KAVANAUGH-LYNCH, Marion H. E.; JACKSON, Jalaia; RODRIGUEZ, Rosa.
Breast Cancer: An Environmental Disease.
Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 12, n. 2, feb. 2024.
ISSN 2375-1924.
Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/4982>. Date accessed: 27 apr. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v12i2.4982.
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