Health

Does Susan G. Komen deny a BPA-breast cancer link?

Mother Jones has a story questioning statements about bisphenol A, or BPA, by leading breast cancer fundraiser Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The story says the group receives funding from industries that use BPA and appears dismissive of evidence that there is a link between the chemical and breast cancer. The group denies this — said Komen president Elizabeth Thompson: "We are not influenced at all by any subpart of any one of our funders" — but Mother Jones finds critics who wonder. Reporting on the story by Amy Silverstein began when she was a Carnegie-Knight fellow at USC.


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