Climb for Breast Cancer Prevention Now Accepting Applications November 12, 2006

Help the Breast Cancer Fund and Climb Against the Odds
www.breastcancerfund.org/climb or call (866) 760-8223

Applications are now being accepted for the Breast Cancer Fund’s eight annual Climb Against the Odds~Mt. Shasta 2007. Team members begin training in winter 2007 and pledge to raise awareness and at least $5, 000 to help eliminate the environmental – and preventable – causes of the disease.

Climb Against the Odds~Mt. Shasta will take place July 8-14, 2007. Applications accepted now until team is full.

Join 40 breast cancer survivors and supporters and will climb 14,162 feet, to the top of one of the most striking mountain in Northern California and view California’s largest glaciers.

WHY: Proceeds benefit the Breast Cancer Fund.

As many as 50 percent of breast cancer cases remain unexplained by traditionally-accepted risk factors; scientists increasingly believe many cases are linked to environmental factors. The Breast Cancer Fund works to identify and eliminate the environmental causes of breast cancer.

Last year’s climb helped the Breast Cancer Fund in:

*Helping fund the organization’s work to make California the first state in the nation to enact a statewide biomonitoring program to measure the presence of toxic chemicals in people’s bodies;

*Publishing State of the Evidence 2006, a report that analyzes nearly 350 scientific studies on environmental links to breast cancer; and

*Pressuring OPI Products, Orly International and Del Laboratories (makers of the Sally Hansen brand) to remove dibutyl phthalate (DBP) from their nail polish formulations; DBP has been shown to cause birth defects and to promote the growth of certain breast cancers.

APPLY NOW!
www.breastcancerfund.org/climb or call (866) 760-8223.

Official Website: http://www.breastcancerfund.org/climb