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toxic overload; Teflon, pesticides on golf courses, plastic bottles-an explosion of research is investigating environmental links to breast cancer.
Byline: Jancee Dunn
The reports made international headlines: Women in two of the country's wealthiest
ZIP codes had some of the highest
rates of breast cancer not only in United States but in the world. The first account, in 2002, surfaced in Marin County, California, an area north of San Francisco that is almost ridiculously scenic, filled with outdoorsy-chic women who seem to glow with health as they shop organic and bicycle to the yoga studio, leaving the Prius in the driveway. A year later, news spread of a breast cancer cluster (an unusually high rate of disease in a small area) on New York's Upper East Side, an
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