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CHE Café - Informal conversations on environmental health
Join us for a conversation with authors Nancy Nichols and Alice and Philip Shabecoff
Thurs, Nov 20 at 10am PT/ 1pm ET

CHE Partnership Call - Growing Danger: Pesticides, Other Agricultural Exposures, and Cancer
Tues, Dec 9 at 10am PT/ 1pm ET


11/11/08: Comments sought - EU consultation on risk assessment for carcinogenic and mutagenic substances


11/7/08: Dr. Theo Colborn receives 2008 Goteborg Award for Sustainable Development
 

11/7/08: New LDDI fact sheet - Mental Health and the Environment
 

10/27/08: New download - MP3 Recording of "Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging" CHE Partnership Call

10/23/08: NEW REPORT - Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging

 

10/08: CHE Partner Elise Miller given EPA Children's Environmental Health Champion Award

10/08: CHE Partner Dr. Richard Clapp wins ISEE Research Integrity Award
 

10/20/08: New Parkinson's Disease documents, including a fact sheet and the new Consensus Statement on Parkinson's Disease and the Environment

10/20/08: New President's Cancer Panel fact sheet - Agricultural Exposures and Cancer

10/6/08: NEW SCIENCE REVIEW on Hormone Disruptors and Women's Health, in addition to a lay summary primer [PDF]

10/2/08: NEW - CHE Cancer Consensus Statement [PDF]


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CHE Partnership Call
Joint CHE Cancer / Fertility / Women's Health and the Environment Working Group Call on Endocrine Disruption and Cancer

December 7, 2006

Background Information / Resources

Baird, Donna, and Retha Newbold, Prenatal diethylstilbestrol (DES) exposure is associated with uterine leiomyoma development, Reproductive Toxicology, 2005. 

Cook, Jennifer D., et al., Interaction between genetic susceptibility and early-life environmental exposure determines tumor-suppressor-gene penetrance, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol.102, no.24, June 14, 2005. 

Ho, Shuk-Mei, et al., Developmental  Exposure to Estradiol and Bisphenol A Increases Susceptibility to Prostate Carcinogenesis and Epigenetically Regulates Phosphodiesterase Type 4 Variant 4, Cancer Res 2006; 66: (11). June 1, 2006.

Link to the NIEHS Uterine Fibroid Study 

Information about safe baby products:

 

 

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