This issue brings a large column of 'must-read' cancer articles...

• BREAST CANCER UNAWARENESS MONTH PART2: FDA Advisory Committee Urged To Reject Zeneca's application of Tamoxifen For Preventing Breast Cancer in Healthy Women as the Drug is Ineffective and Dangerous.
  
• CARBS CAN CAUSE PANCREATIC CANCER IN WOMEN: A diet high in white bread, white rice and potatoes puts women at much higher risk of pancreatic cancer, especially if they are overweight and don't do adequate exercise.
  
• DANGEROUS GRAINS: Two American clinicians, James Braly and Ron Hoggan, have published a book, Dangerous Grains, claiming that what was thought to be a relatively rare condition may be more widespread than was previously thought.
• BREAST CANCER DECEPTION: Fifty years ago the incidence of Breast Cancer for a woman's lifetime risk was one in twenty. Now it has skyrocketed to one in eight. Clearly the so-called war on cancer has not even made a dent in the breast cancer epidemic as the rates continue to climb at the rate of one per cent per year.
  
• THE NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION (NBCC) is Urged by Dr. Samuel Epstein to Consider Breast Examination as a Practical Alternative to Mammography.
• RISK OF OVARIAN CANCER FROM THE COMMONLY PRESCRIBED DRUG EVISTA supported by Recent Evidence, Warns the Cancer Prevention Coalition.
• HYPOTHESIS: Underarm Cosmetics are a Cause of Breast Cancer, by Philippa D Darbre.

The rest of this month's medical news...

• POOR HEALTH OUTLOOK FOR PESSIMISTS: Pessimists tend to have worse health over the long-term than their positive peers. Or, put more positively, optimists tend to have better health over the long-term than their negative peers.
  
• MEDICINE MIX-UPS KILL 2000 PEOPLE: Mix-ups with medicines are killing more than 2000 Australians every year. Illegible prescriptions, poor drug packaging and mistakes with drugs cause more deaths each year than car crashes.

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