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President's Cancer Panel - Official website

Cancer and the Environment - Meeting series overview [PDF]

Update 5/5/10: The Panel’s latest report, Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk What We Can Do Now, was released May 5, 2010. Download the report (select the link for Annual Report for 2008-2009)

Read organizational and media coverage of the report

Update 2/22/11: Margaret Kripke, PhD, co-author of the 2010 President's Cancer Panel report was interviewed by The New School at Commonweal on February 7, 2011. The report, which informs the National Cancer Program, has brought unprecedented attention to the environmental exposures that increase cancer risk.

Co-presented by The New School at Commonweal and the Breast Cancer Fund.

Visit The New School website and listen to the audio recording (scroll down on the page to find the information on the Kripke interview and the link to the audio download)

Download the full transcript of the interview

About the President's Cancer Panel

Starting in September 2008, the President's Cancer Panel has held four public meetings. The Panel's focus for 2008/09 was "Cancer and the Environment". These meetings offered a unique opportunity for interested CHE Partners to tell the panel and the American people what we have learned about the environmental causes of cancer. Each meeting explored a different set of environmental contributors to cancer causation

The agenda for each meeting included official testimony by invited experts and 15-20 minutes of open public comment. The list of invited experts for the panel meetings included many CHE partners and friends, including Jeanne Rizzo, Dr. Dick Clapp, Dr. Devra Davis, Dr. Phil Landrigan, Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Dr. Tyrone Hayes, and others.

Consensus Statement on Cancer and the Environment

The Collaborative on Health and the Environment, in partnership with the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and the Breast Cancer Fund, has developed a consensus statement that lays out the scientific rationale for stronger cancer prevention and enumerates specific research and policy initiatives to prevent environmental exposures that contribute to cancer.

We invite you to voice your support for a stronger, science-based national cancer prevention agenda by signing the statement. As of 1/30/09, about 220 people and organizations have signed the statement.

Sign the Statement

CHE Consensus Statement on Cancer and the Environment [PDF]

View List of Signers