Tyranny of the Bra: The New Evidence in 10 Studies

By Fred Harding

When in the 19th century, women of all classes began to wear stays or tight-fitting corsets with their breast binding characteristics, doctors like James Nooth, surgeon to the Duke of Kent and a physician suspected that such female attire were in some way the cause of the breast cancer cases he was treating, but did not know why.Fast forward to 1991, and professor of Epidemiology Dimitrios Trichopoulo of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. Regarded by many as "a giant among giants in the field of epidemiology", he published a major study in the European Journal of Cancer which showed that premenopausal women who did not wear bras had half the risk of breast cancer compared with those women of their age who were bra users.The leading authority in the USA, the American Cancer Society (ACS) described by "The Chronicle of Philanthropy" in 1992 was "more interested in accumulating wealth than in saving lives" buried the Harvard study behind a cloak of secrecy. Then in 1995 the ACS had a rude awakening. It received a preview of a study by anthropologists, Sidney Singer and Soma Grismaijer, who had carried out a study which revealed that women who wear bras over 12 hours daily have a dramatically increased risk of developing breast cancer compared to bra-free women and those who wear bras 24/7 have more than 100 times the chance of developing breast cancer.Prewarned, when Singer/Grismaijer published their study in a book "Dressed to Kill", the powerful media control and public relations resources of the ACS ensured that the study would be stopped in its tracks. For decades the study was ridiculed but the anthropologists stuck to their guns. Their study just would not go away and something had to be done to quash the "myth" or risk financial disaster if it was proven true. By 2014 the charity had accumulated $870 million in funding.Dr. Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, wrote that the ACS is the tail that wags the dog of the policies and priorities of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the society called upon their government funded buddy to come to the rescue. In 2014, the NCI financed its own study in September 2014, which was conducted by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, an organisation that receives millions of dollars in funding from the government agency. The Press Release from Fred Hutch declared that "Bras Cause Breast Cancer? No support for that claim, Fred Hutch study finds". So that was that - or was it? Enter me In 2004, a dear friend of the family, Gillian Wood, died of breast cancer, and I was determined to find out why. Consequently, I studied breast cancer in depth which culminated in the publication of a book in 2005 and revamped version in 2007. Although, I identified the growing evidence that environmental carcinogens was a major factor in breast carcinogenesis, I failed to answer my original question, why Gill had got the disease. A major piece of the jigsaw was missing. Then several years later, I learned that she had worn a bra 24/7, day and night. It was a bolt from the blue. From that day on I proceeded an intensive period of research and to my amazement, I found nine independent studies which confirmed the link between wearing bras and breast cancer. Then, in 2016, I read an article in an English newspaper with the headline,"Your bra could kill you - and other breast cancer myths busted." Upon reading the article which focused on the 2014 Fred Hutch study, which from my own studies was seriously flawed. I was so incensed that I decided to rebut the article and write a new book, this one, "The Tyranny of the Bra: The New Evidence in Ten Studies." What you will read in my book, the 10th study, will both shock you and astound you. The evidence presented is meticulous in detail and indisputable. Ditching your bra or reducing the time you wear one WILL GREATLY REDUCE YOUR RISK OF BREAST CANCER.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 179505686X
• ISBN13: 9781795056861
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 558 Pages
• Weight: 2.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.0" x 10.0"