Breast Cancer Working Group
CHE’s Breast Cancer Working Group was formed in 2005 as a subdivision of the CHE Cancer Working Group. This active but smaller group explores the relationship between environmental exposures and breast cancer, and has recently developed the 2006 Consensus Statement on Breast Cancer and the Environment.
We meet on occasion via conference call with additional emails between calls. The group has a listserv where new research and policy ideas are distributed. This working group is coordinated by both Michael Lerner, President of Commonweal, and Jeanne Rizzo, RN, Executive Director of Breast Cancer Fund. For more information about this group, Jeanne Rizzo at Jeanne@BreastCancerFund.org or Julia Varshavsky, CHE Program Associate, at Julia@HealthandEnvironment.org.
If you are interested in joining this group, please sign on as a CHE Partner, and indicate your interest in your application. If you are already a CHE Partner and would like to join the listserv for this group send an email request to: chebrcancer-subscribe@lists.healthandenvironment.org.
2/09: Breast Cancer Fund scientific review paper published
A scientific review article published in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health shows that a host of chemicals that mimic or alter the activities of natural hormones can potentially increase breast cancer risk. A companion article outlines research and policy priorities needed to better understand and regulate these endocrine-disrupting chemicals, which are found in everything from pesticides to plastics to personal care products.
Read more
5/5/10: The President's Cancer Panel released their 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)
12/08: New cancer documents
CHE Consensus Statement on Cancer and the Environment Download the Statement [PDF] Sign the Statement Fact Sheets
Written by Molly Jacobs, MPH and Richard Clapp, DSc, MPH of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, in partnership with CHE and the Breast Cancer Fund Agricultural Exposures and Cancer [PDF] Industrial and Manufacturing Exposures and Cancer [PDF] Air and Water Pollutants and Cancer [PDF] More Cancer Resources
9/08: New women's health document
Download Hormone Disruptors and Women's Health: Reasons for Concern [PDF]
Click here for the fully footnoted version
6/08: Three videos on environmental estrogens from BCERF
These three short videos on environmental estrogens found in everyday products, including cosmetics and personal care products, plastics, detergents, and estrogenic heavy metals found in electronics, were produced by BCERF, the Cornell University Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors.
Environmental estrogens video index
5/08: Breast cancer and chemical exposures: new documents from HEAL and CHEM Trust (translations in six languages)
4/08: New report from the Breast Cancer Fund:
State of the Evidence 2008: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment
Resources
Archive of past CHE Breast Cancer Calls
View call notes, recordings and resources specific to CHE Cancer Calls here.
Background Information on Breast Cancer and the Environment
2006 Consensus Statement on Breast Cancer and the Environment
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