TUESDAY, Feb. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Efforts to prevent breast
cancer need to focus more aggressively and coherently on That's
the conclusion of a new report released Tuesday by a committee
tasked in 2008 by the U.S. Congress to investigate the
environment's impact on breast cancer. Chemical and radiation
exposure, drugs and consumer products are among environmental
factors addressed in the report, but so are less obvious factors
connected to lifestyle and socioeconomic If researchers could
identify specific factors in the environment, they could take
steps to remove them from the environment and/or help people
avoid them, said Michael Gould, a member of the Interagency
Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Coordinating Committee,
which prepared the report. "This area of primary prevention and
taking things out of the environment that might reduce the
amount of breast cancer is not as bold as it could be," Gould
said. Environment in this case is defined broadly to mean not
just chemicals but also obesity a