THE SCREECH OWLS OF BREAST CANCER

About the Book

The tribute is: To all those brave women who suffer with breast cancer and to their families and friends. Breast cancer is a modern day plague affecting 1.6 million women this year. It is steadily increasing in numbers affected and in severity of disease aggression. Young women by far outnumber young men in numbers getting cancer and it is now the situation that young women get twice as much cancer as men. This is due to their vulnerability to breast cancer. Research, funding and medical focus have not abated this epidemic. Could it be that they are aiding and abetting it’s spread? Are some key players running with the hare and hunting with the hounds? Have they closed the stable door and allowed the horse to bolt and get new pastures in underdeveloped countries and amongst the young? Breast cancer is a demographic social and medical issue. It needs to tackled on all three fronts. It is an enigma that a simple answer to its predominant cause has not yet been discovered and eradicated.

About the Author

My name is Eugene Breen and I work as an adult psychiatrist in an inner city practice. I treat many women and speak to their families. I work with oncologists and surgeons and have regular exposure to women with breast cancer. I counsel them and treat their depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress caused by their breast cancer.Their experiences are often harrowing and life changing. Many do very well with the treatment of their breast cancer.Their plight seems all too common and my experience in internal medicine and psychiatry prompted me to investigate why so many young women were getting serious cancer. The mind set of "contracept at all costs" is having devastating effects on generations of women and their families and friends. The tribute is: To all those brave women who suffer with breast cancer and to their families and friends. The contact the author is: maria253maria@gmail.com