Please Come
To Our Long Island Town Meetings
October 18-21, 1999
A unique
opportunity
to tell scientists about pollutants in the environment
You may have historical information about the use of land on Long Island
that may not be recorded anywhere, and could be important for breast cancer
research. For example, do you know:
- how land was used for agricultural purposes, such as the crops grown,
before the mid-1970s when record keeping improved?
- the locations of closed gas stations; underground fuel storage tanks
and leaks; automobile storage, maintenance, and fueling facilities;
power stations; and military bases?
- the locations of other small industries, both past and present, whose
locations may be unrecorded?
Come talk to representatives of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and
tell about possible environmental pollutants, particularly of the past,
to help research on possible links between breast cancer and the environment.
You, who live on Long Island, have the best knowledge of your environment.
This information is important for mapping sources of pollution and the
study of how these sources may relate to breast cancer.
People who cannot attend the town meetings may share their information
by writing to:
LIBCSP - GIS
c/o NOVA Research Co.
4600 East-West Hwy., Suite 700
Bethesda, MD 20814
The Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project (LIBCSP) is a multistudy
investigation of possible environmental causes of breast cancer on Long
Island. As part of the project, a geographic information system (GIS)
is being developed to help researchers study potential relationships between
the location of breast cancer cases and environ-mental exposures on Long
Island. The information obtained from the town meetings is for this GIS.
GISs are powerful computer systems that can store, manipulate, analyze,
and display spatial (geographic location) relation-ships. Other information
to be included in the GIS is listed on the Web
site. The LIBCSP was mandated by Congress in 1993 (Public Law 103-43),
and is being funded and coordinated by NCI, in collaboration with the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, both part of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Interested in learning more about the GIS?
Click here
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