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Print Media Coverage Of Environmental Causation Of Breast Cancer, Phil Brown, Stephen M. Zavestoski, Sabrina Mccormick, Joshua Mandelbaum, Theo Luebke

Sabrina McCormick

Given the growing concern with breast cancer as a largely unexplained and common illness of our time, we would expect considerable print media coverage. An accurate portrayal of breast cancer would also include a good amount of attention to the potential environmental factors since many women with breast cancer and activists are pointing to such potential causes. Our examination of daily newspapers, newsweeklies, science periodicals, and women's magazines showed that there was little coverage of possible environmental causation. There was also scant attention paid to corporate and governmental responsibility. Articles often focused on individual responsibility for diet, age at birth …