ABSTRACT
The breast cancer issue has been adopted not only by pharmaceutical corporations, but by advertising for fashionable products and meetings. Consistent with position, Breast Cancer Action will not knowingly accept funding from corporate entities. Whose products of manufacturing processes directly endanger environmental and/or occupational health or may possibly contribute to cancer incidence. Clearly, accepting gifts and underwriting funds poses problems for the independence of the environmental groups. There was concern that because of pressure, and the difficulty of raising funds, the Kingston group who sponsored the First World Conference on Breast Cancer may not emphasize prevention when they next meet in the year 1999. Self-preservation alone demands a strong stance, but as they well know, not accepting gifts and underwriting poses problems as well, mostly the starvation of advocacy work. This year, Greenpeace closed offices and curtailed operations because of lack of money.
