Leslie Reinlib, Ph.D.
NIEHS Program Director Reinlib, L Tel (919) 541-4998 Fax (919) 316-4606 reinlib@niehs.nih.gov P.O. Box 12233 MD K3-12 Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 Delivery Instructions (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/about/visiting/delivery.cfm) The Breast Cancer & the Environment Research Centers (BCERC) (http://www.bcerc.org/home.htm) is a seven-year project jointly funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Cancer Institute. The centers are studying the impact of prenatal-to-adult environmental exposures that may predispose a woman to breast cancer. Functioning as a consortium of basic scientists, epidemiologists, research translational units, community outreach experts, and community advocates within and across centers, BCERC is investigating mammary gland development in animals and young girls to determine vulnerability to environmental agents that may influence breast cancer development in adulthood. A major outcome of the BCERC is to develop public health messages designed to educate young girls and women who are at high risk of breast cancer about the role(s) of specific environmental stressors in breast cancer and how to reduce exposures to those stressors. These public health messages will be based on the integration of the basic biological, toxicological, and epidemiologic data. State of the Evidence: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/docs/breast-cancer-enviro.pdf) (4MB) Program ContactsCaroline Dilworth, Ph.D.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences P.O. Box 12233
MD K3-12 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 Tel (919) 541-7727 Fax (919) 316-4606 dilworthch@niehs.nih.gov Gary L. Ellison, Ph.D.
National Cancer Institute EPN - Executive Plaza North, 5108
Mail Stop 7324 6130 Executive Blvd. Rockville, MD Tel (301) 402-1853 Fax (301) 402-4279 ellisong@mail.nih.gov Shannon Lynch
National Cancer Institute EPN - Executive Plaza North, 5112
6130 Executive Blvd. Rockville, MD Tel (301) 402-9600 lynchs@mail.nih.gov Elizabeth Maull, Ph.D.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences P.O. Box 12233
MD K3-12 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 Tel (919) 316-4668 Fax (919) 316-4606 maull@niehs.nih.gov |
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