Tips for Prevention

Tip Topic Areas

What can be done to reduce our risk of breast cancer? Our prevention tips are one of our most sought after resources. Awareness and adoption of our tips can help redefine your daily routine and help you reduce your risk to the disease. We’ll help you identify some known and suspected breast cancer risk factors, and give you tips on how you can make simple changes to protect your health.

Tip Topic Areas

What can be done to reduce our risk of breast cancer? Our prevention tips are one of our most sought after resources. Awareness and adoption of our tips can help redefine your daily routine and help you reduce your risk to the disease. We’ll help you identify some known and suspected breast cancer risk factors, and give you tips on how you can make simple changes to protect your health.

Personal Care Products

Fragrance on a product label can mask countless carcinogens and hormone disrupting chemicals.

Kids and Family

The younger girls are when they enter puberty, the greater their risk of breast cancer later in life. Here are some top tips to help protect our kids from later life breast cancer.

Cleaning Products

Protect yourself and your family from exposure to toxic chemicals in everyday cleaning products.

Food Packaging

Kick the can, get out of plastic, and learn about more healthy ways to reduce your risk.

Every Day Earth Tips

Earth Day doesn’t come just once a year. We put together some easy ways to help you go green and keep the planet clean every day!

Workplace Health

Jobs across all sectors expose people to hazardous chemicals and radiation at work.

Top Tips

Read ingredient labels

It is perfectly legal to use ingredients linked to cancer, endocrine disruption, and reproductive harm in personal care products, cosmetics, cleaning products and food packaging.

If you don’t know what’s in it, don’t use it

Labeling loopholes have allowed companies to avoid disclosing ingredients on the labels of household cleaners, food packaging and hair and nail salon products. Buy from companies committed to full ingredient disclosure.

Avoid fragrance in everything

Fragrance (or parfum) is a cocktail of ingredients, and each fragrance can include dozens of potentially harmful chemicals. Avoid purchasing and using personal care products, cleaning products, clothing, and home goods with added fragrance as often as possible.

Wash your hands

Washing your hands kills germs and reduces exposures to unsafe chemicals. Many chemicals from everyday products end up in household (or workplace) dust. Hand-washing reduces dust on the hands, and as a result reduces exposures to chemicals, like flame retardants. Make sure to use hand soap free of harmful chemicals.

Go fresh, organic, and hormone-free

Choose fresh, organic and hormone-free foods in order to avoid exposure to pesticides, added hormones, and other possible toxic chemicals in packaged foods. Buying products grown organically reduces pesticide use, which is good for families, farm workers, and the environment, and eating fresh (or frozen) foods helps you to avoid chemicals like BPA in food can linings.

Don’t be brainwashed, greenwashed or pinkwashed

Companies use savvy marketing to sell products, so don’t let false claims trick you into buying products with harmful ingredients. Watch out for products designed to look like they good for the environment or natural. This is called green washing — words like “natural” and “safe” have little, if any, meaning without ingredient labels to back them up. Be wary of products boasting a pink ribbon, too; many pinkwashed products contain chemicals linked to cancer, and often do little to prevent or reduce breast cancer.