Ashton: It's a bad line is alendronate sodium the same as fosamax - First, do no harm. The worst-case pink-shopping scenario,according to Karuna Jaggar, executive director of Breast CancerAction, is buying something pink-branded that may becarcinogenic. "Does the purchase actually contain chemicals thatput a woman or someone she loves at risk for breast cancer?" sheasked in an interview. It's not so easy to determine which items(often cosmetics) include dangerous chemicals, and Jaggar'sgroup doesn't help with specifics. But before you buypink-branded cosmetics, you can run them through theEnvironmental Working Group's Skin Deep database () to see which ones have chemicals that have been listed by theEnvironmental Protection Agency or others as carcinogenic orproblematic in other ways.