Breast Cancer & Environmental Research Conference-Cincinatti.OH Nov.8-9,2007

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conference announcement

 

Emerging Topics in Breast Cancer and the Environment Research

Fourth Annual Early Environmental Exposures Meeting

November 8 - 9, 2007

Westin Hotel, Cincinnati, OH

hosted by the

BREAST CANCER AND THE ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTERS

funded by

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

National Cancer Institute

 

Emerging Topics in Breast Cancer and the Environment Research is an annual

conference sponsored by the Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers

(BCERC). The purpose of this conference is to present the latest research

from the centers and other studies addressing the basic biology of breast

development, environmental exposures and gene-environment interactions that

influence pubertal maturation and susceptibility to carcinogenesis, and

effective

public health communications pertinent to these findings. Environment is

most broadly defined to include air, water, soil and the homes, buildings and

cities in which we live, work and play. Environment also includes the foods we

eat, chemical and physical exposures, radiation and psychosocial factors.

Most all of these dimensions of the environment are being studied in the

BCERCs. Community participation and advocacy concerns are integrated into the

format and content of the conference.

The ‘06 conference took place in Oakland, CA. Session topics included

radiation carcinogenesis in humans and rodent models; environmental exposures

and

pubertal timing/development and breast cancer. Updates of each of the BCERC

research and education projects were provided as well. Presentation

summaries are available on-line at _www.bcerc.org/2006mtg_

(file://www.bcerc.org/2006mtg)

For information about the ‘07 conference scheduled for Nov.8-9 in

Cincinnati, OH go to _http://www.bcerc.org/2007mtg/index.htm_

(http://www.bcerc.org/2007mtg/index.htm) . The Call for Abstracts is available

at

_http://www.bcerc.org/2007mtg/call4abs.htm_

(http://www.bcerc.org/2007mtg/call4abs.htm) .

Nursing CEUs are pending.

The Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers are funded for seven

years by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the

National Cancer Institute. This network of four centers is conducting

epidemiologic and biologic studies investigating the influence of early

environmental

exposures on pubertal maturation and mammary gland development and the

potential of these developmental changes to alter the risk of breast cancer

later in

life. A transdisciplinary research paradigm guides the collaborative

research and education projects. Collaborations between researchers and

advocates,

both within and across the centers, are essential to the success of the

BCERCs.

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