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Petition update, 28 November 2008

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Breast cancer cases have reached record levels and the disease is increasing across all age-ranges. In the UK a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer is 1 in 9.

There is mounting evidence linking lifelong, low-level exposure to a toxic cocktail of carcinogens and endocrine disruptors in our homes, workplaces, and environment to breast cancer.

The EU recently recognised the environmental causes of breast cancer which must be taken into account when considering any public health approach to this disease. But the UK cancer charities continue to refute environmental and occupational exposures as a risk factor for breast cancer.

The historic approach of focusing on lifestyles factors alone, accounts for only 30-50% of breast cancer cases, leaving 50-70% of cases with no known cause.

The UK could lead the way in Europe by recognising environmental and occupational risk factors, taking inspiration from progressive initiatives by the US and New Zealand Governments and the Canadian Cancer Society.

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• Kate Beard
• Debbie Dodd
• Debbie Robinson
• Diana Buttle
• amanda brown
• Carol Hall
• Gilly Norton
• Diana Williams
• Victoria Souter
• Ruth Hunt
• Kerry Millar
• Jacqui Frame
• June Parkinson
• Pauline Hoskins
• Wendy Stewart
• Alexandra O'Brien
• Clare Davies
• J Stimpson
• Sheila Morrow
• Sarah Wills
• Charlotte Kidston
• Joanna Herd
• Jackie Walsh
• Gillian Flay
• Karen Thomas
• Sue Northcott
• Steven Teasdale
• debbie miller
• Christopher Roberts
• alan holman
• Sandra Preston
• Jane Niesigh
• jennie brooks
• Susan Paskell
• nicola loyns
• Alison Jones
• Judy Rowe
• sue cookman
• Siggy Parratt-Halbert
• Stella Smethurst
• Orla McElroy
• Colin Lomax
• Anne Dennison
• Amanda Wycherley
• Marion McKone
• Sarah Chappell
• Anne Middlemiss
• Bev Wilkinson
• Roger P Mason
• Rory O'Neill
• Gulusan Senik
• catherine mannion
• Gill Farmer
• Marion Power
• Anne Tryhorn
• Susan Fanous
• Michael J Clarkson
• Lorraine J Bugler
• Michelle Bryant
• Ken Bryant
• maggie darley
• Gulay dalkilic
• Catherine Maudsley
• Tricia Butt
• Norma Hood
• Philippa
• Elizabeth Shortland
• Trish Herring
• Tim Price
• Jean Hill
• justine clement
• Cynthia Page
• Tracy Barnes
• Jacqueline Roberts
• Kay Nock
• Diane Greaves
• Sarah Vincent
• Veronica Harewood
• Lindsay Southcombe
• Cate Mowat
• Michelle Thew
• Dot Haynes
• Janet Turpin
• Nicola Husband
• Diana Wellings
• Marion Kelly
• Gita Karsan
• Lupe Castro
• Helen Robb
• Christine Voge
• Mena Monnan
• Katie Fewings
• Lynn Wood
• Julia Jenkins
• Elizabeth Murray
• Jocelyn Ross
• Chrissie Button
• Lorraine Jenner
• marilyn nunn
• Helen Johnston
• Sarah Nicholl
• Hilda Palmer
• Penny Mills
• Una Walsh
• michele stacey
• Sylvia Baron
• Louise Keys
• DARREN HISCUTT
• christopher Ingram
• cathy jones
• c.b.moore
• Gill Garnett
• Angela Parker
• maureen shepherd
• Sheena Mudie
• Bob Stephenson
• krishna lal
• Elizabeth Sedgwick
• Loraine Barkley
• RACHEL BLAKEY
• Ruth Symons
• Tracey Marrtin
• Joanne Dennis
• Clive Hudson
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• Tracey Liversidge
• jayne freeman
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• Carole Traunter
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• Tracy Carpenter
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• Christine Gresser
• Diane Anderson
• katrina marie davies
• Michele Bradford
• norma gelder
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• Jane Howie
• Mandy K Bird
• G. J. H Baker
• Hope Daley
• barbara Walker
• Irene Botham
• Sue Edwards
• prof. steve tombs
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• Nicholas Birch
• wendy ash
• paula allen
• Sharron Feather
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• J. Hindley
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• Joanne Carlin
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• Hilary Carpenter
• Wayne Lunt
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• Lynn Sime
• CAROLINE TEMPLER
• Christine Clay
• Rhona Kyle
• Shazia Idris
• claire marriott
• Allan Hart
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• Joan Wilson
• Carol Duerden
• Michelle Slade
• Sophie Madden
• Kevin Bartholomew
• Patricia Darling
• Daniel J Williams
• Pam Swanson
• Shay Boyle
• peter williamson
• Gillian Whyte
• Nicky Chapman
• Joanne Major
• Dawn Peters
• Deborah Cook
• julia plummer
• Michelle Gibson
• Liz Flynn
• Rachel Shortridge
• Anna Middlemiss
• Keith Northcott
• Sue Crowder
• tracey shiels
• rob kerley
• Sam Boyd
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• Zarah Dene
• Raelene Davenport
• Anne Fraser
• Gill Brown
• Ed Canney
• Simon Reed
• Diana Young
• colin ellis
• Lorna Patient
• Sara Johnson
• Jo Budd
• Jeff Douglas
• Mrs. Bee Henderson
• Anna McConnell
• Nicola Williams
• Gemma Sayers
• christine weaver
• Gill Puddephatt
• Mary Philp
• Val Kemball
• Fiona Darmady
• joannewoodvine
• Karen Reid
• margo marrone
• Kate Young
• Rebecca Kehoe
• Lorraine White
• simon white
• tim murcott
• Christine Cartlidge
• Ruth Byrne
• Christine Collings
• peter benjamin
• Jennifer Windle
• Clare Dimmer
• Sean Mitchell
• Trevor White
• Dominique Perrissin
• Bibi van der Zee
• S Dale
• Barbara van der Zee
• Mike Abbott
• Thea Palmer
• Laura Trevelyan
• Dianne Dowling
• Ele Ramsey
• Justin Butcher
• Anne Dempsey
• maggie mchenry
• NICOLA CLAIRE MATTEI
• rachael kirkup
• Louise Bendelow
• Ashleigh Hunt
• Frederic Beaunier
• Debra Peters
• Lucy Sherston
• Maria Adebowale
• Alan Care
• James Cahan
• Jonathan Herbert
• Clare Wheeler
• Calum Kennedy
• Lynda Murphy
• Dave Jones
• Lyndon Holmes
• Natalie Gingell
• louise edge
• Isabel Savo;;e
• chris boaler-hysett
• Daniel Murphy
• Maurice Crowe
• Olusoga Taiwo Awoyungbo
• Redmond Breslin
• Michael Phillips
• Ashley King
• Michelle Cage
• yvonne norman
• Carol Denham
• Ute Story
• Jennifer Wilson
• Carla Thompson
• Gwen Moore
• Julie Cracknell
• susan westman
• Daniella Vega
• Karen Gadsden
• Juliet Holmes
• sheila smart
• Paul Hardisty in Memory of Veronica Carter Died of Breast Cancer
• Deborah Malcolm
• Angela Burton
• Gill McGregor
• Peter Roberts
• Dee Sullivan
• sarah denney
• Tony Kahane
• Lucy Alexander
• Tom mellish
• Sharon Spear
• Dionne Gravesande
• Lisa O'Shea
• Liz Woollard
• moira adams
• Anne Cannon
• Jeannie Erskine
• Sam Burton
• Lynsey Whelan
• Patricia McIntyre
• Natalie Waghorn
• Bridget Middleton
• Margaret Munro
• Douglas Shelley
• Gail McMullan
• Sara Wright
• sally mellish
• Gillian Grout
• Clive J Marland
• Myra Comer
• debora williams
• pam harris
• sam cotton
• Bernice Butcher
• Juliet Benady
• Jane Smith
• Penny Weatherill
• jan stirrat
• amriek dilvarh
• Roger J Weatherill
• Paula MacCallum
• julie Garvey
• G Swatton
• Louise Goble
• Fran Budgen
• Mick Funnell
• Angela Onslow
• Christine Funnell
• Inger Griffiths
• Linda Flower
• Nicola Belmonte
• Ruth Sutcliffe
• joyce stebbings
• elaine lippatt
• joan lindeman
• Debra Smith
• Anne Russell
• carol Thyer
• Anne Marie Jennow
• a.everts
• Daphne Havercroft
• Kevin Dimer
• Debbie Goscomb
• Tracey Lockstone
• William Havercroft
• jane parsons
• Mary McDonnell
• TRACEY RICE
• Andy Tring
• Rachel Lalchan
• Hannah Cooper
• Marie Chapman
• David Sterratt
• Efa Wulle
• Vincent Borg
• Lynn Alford-Burow
• CAROLE ANDERSON
• william anderson
• Jannette Fieser
• Stephanie Thompson
• Linda Savage
• Judy Wermig
• Christine Lemm
• Catherine Quayle
• Philip Groves
• karen young
• Jane Russell
• Jane Harrison
• Jane Sterck
• joanna ellis
• Ashley Wicks
• Vaughan Skirrey
• Sarah Faulkner
• Patricia Sanderson
• Helen M Jones
• mary enright
• Rosie Armstrong
• Charlotte Moore
• Katey D'Ancona
• Sarah Davison
• Will Cassidy
• Wendrie Heywood
• Derek Elwood
• sarah cairncross
• Morgan Deare
• Paula Margetson
• Cleone Kouch-Percival, in memory of Leslie Martin, died of breast cancer
• JEANNIE JOHNSON
• REX JOHNSON
• STEVE TOMBS (PROF)
• John Flanagan
• Tessa Vale
• Julie Ross
• John Bamford
• sheri robins
• Colin Nolan
• Stephen Fisher
• Hope Daley
• Emily Fisher
• David Hodds
• Eleanor Hodds
• Deborah Fisher
• Sue Jenkins
• Susan Westlake
• Gina Ferrari
• Mary Nelson
• Rosalind Schogger
• Catherine Laurence
• Hilary Wallace
• Suzanne Handsford
• Julie Summersgill
• Joe Mcsherry
• N Chellen
• lorna howard
• John Wade
• Gaynor Hunter
• Lisa Bailey
• Susan Bryan
• julie wood
• Vi Carr
• Lisa Greenfield
• J Hawke
• Carl Creighton
• jackie grover
• Enid Fletcher
• Pauline Worsnop
• John Vickers
• Pauline McCarthy
• SAMUEL VICKERS
• Steven Greatwood
• yvonne france
• Ian Charlton
• Gully purewal
• jim mclelland
• Celia Treacy
• Jeff Latham
• sally griffiths
• Laura Fawcett
• FRANK LOVEDAY BFAWU
• William Clegg
• Phyllis Noakes
• Diane cluley
• ian c gregory
• Pamela Ashall
• FLORENCE LONGWORTH
• Pamela Ah-thion
• sean mccluskey
• Alan Milne
• eileen barrett
• Alison Hollinrake
• Klara Sudbury
• Iain Mcmillan
• KAREN WILSON
• hemant shah
• Mr John Fitzpatrick
• Judy Adams
• JOHN HILLON
• Aprille Nowell
• Frances Smith
• Katy Fearn
• Basharat Sadiq
• Beatrice Macpherson
• Sheena C Bruce
• Mary Wiseman
• Lorraine Munn
• Deirdre Harkins
• John Gray
• Mary Moffat
• Chris Best
• Bettina Low
• steve latham
• conroy Lawrence
• cheryl Price
• Rebecca Gill
• Alan Smith
• Patricia Law
• janet Edwards
• Alison Foreman
• Arthur Taylor
• C.A.Quinton
• Karine Fortier
• Donna Roberts
• Carla Bold
• Cris Wakeham
• Tom Tamplin
• Tony Tweedale
• Alison Jennings
• sue horrill
• Shani Bloomfield
• Barbara O'Connor
• Jennifer Howells

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