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Breast Cancer Action (BCAction) is an American grassroots education and advocacy organization supporting people living with breast cancer. It was founded in 1990 by Elenore Pred, Susan Claymon, and Linda Reyes. Based in San Francisco, BCAction is known for understanding breast cancer not as an individual crisis, but a public health emergency. BCAction is also known for its ''Think Before You Pink'' campaign, launched in 2002, which encourages consumers to ask critical questions before buying pink ribbon products. BCAction criticizes National Breast Cancer Awareness Month as Breast Cancer Industry Month, because some corporate sponsors benefit financially from increased screening for breast cancer, or produce carcinogenic chemicals. ==History== Breast Cancer Action began in 1990 when Elenore Pred, who had metastatic breast cancer, became frustrated with the lack of information and hard data about the causes and treatments of her condition. Along with other women also suffering from metastatic breast cancer, she founded Breast Cancer Action to be an organization of breast cancer survivors and their supporters. In 1995 Barbara Brenner became the organization's first executive director, a position she held until 2010 when she retired due to non-breast cancer-related health issues.〔Denise Grady, ("Barbara Brenner, Breast Cancer Iconoclast, Dies at 61" ) (obituary), ''New York Times'', May 20, 2013.〕 She was significant in increasing the organization's membership from 3500 to 50,000, and increasing its emphasis on environmental issues and social critiques of the use of breast cancer activism.〔 Since Pred's death in October 1991, BCAction has continued as an advocacy group dedicated to breast cancer activism at local, state and federal levels. The organization sees breast cancer not as an individual issue but a "national public health emergency." Their work has included an emphasis on more effective and less toxic breast cancer treatments that keep the needs of the public interest first; decreasing involuntary environmental exposures that put people at increased risk for breast cancer; and creating awareness that not only genes but also social injustices like political, economic, and racial inequities can lead to imbalances in outcomes of the disease. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Breast Cancer Action」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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