Many carcinogens are “lipophilic,” meaning they are attracted to fatty tissues. The breast tends to concentrate several chemicals that we ingest and therefore acts as an early warning system or a canary in a coal mine. Women should fight the breast cancer epidemic, and I am certain it’s because we use the air, water, and land as a dumping ground for our toxic effluents. It is utopian to think that we will find a magic bullet to eliminate breast cancer when we have polluted the biosphere so much