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Radiologist says Pink October overlooks environmental causes of breast cancer
Radiologist Amélie Cadier-Loriaud says Pink October can obscure environmental causes of breast cancer.
Pink October is the name often used for breast cancer awareness month, observed around the world.
In her book, *Our Political Bodies*, Cadier-Loriaud examines how political and economic choices affect people’s health.
She argues that treating health as an individual responsibility can leave pollution’s harmful effects overlooked.
She also points to work and housing policies that can harm vulnerable people, and to cost-cutting in health care.
She urges people to see health as a common good, rather than only as something each person must manage alone.
Radiologist and philosophy doctoral student Amélie Cadier-Loriaud argues that Pink October draws attention away from environmental causes of breast cancer.
In an interview with Le Monde, she urges people to treat health as a common good.
Her essay examines how neoliberalism frames health as individual responsibility.
She also points to environmental pollution and policies on work and housing as factors affecting health.
Cadier-Loriaud says political choices leave a deep mark on society’s “biological body.”
- Who
- Amélie Cadier-Loriaud, a radiologist and philosophy doctoral student.
- What
- She argues that Pink October obscures environmental causes of breast cancer and calls for health to be understood as a common good.
- When
- The article was published on October 18, 2026, during breast cancer awareness month.
- Where
- Not stated.
- Why
- She says health is often treated as individual responsibility, while environmental pollution and political choices affecting work, housing and healthcare also shape health.
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- Interviewee
- Amélie Cadier-Loriaud
- Profession
- Radiologist and philosophy doctoral student
- Book
- Nos corps politiques: Ce que le capitalisme fait à notre santé
- Outlet
- Le Monde EN
- Publication date
- October 18, 2026
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