Environmental Chemicals and Breast Cancer Risk:
Why Is There Concern?
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Overview: This BCERF presentation includes discussion of the following:

• Why is there concern about chemicals in the home and workplace?

• Which chemicals are associated with increased breast cancer risk?

• Specifics about some types of chemicals.

• Challenges in evaluating linkages between breast cancer risk and environmental chemicals.

Author: Suzanne Snedeker, Ph.D. BCERF Associate Director of Translational Research

AAOHN Nurses! ANCC Approved Contact Hour Credit Available--BCERF collaborated with the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) to develop a continuing education module based on this lecture. Nurses can receive ANCC approved contact hour credit for completing the module on the AAOHN website. (You will not receive credit for watching the lecture on the BCERF website.) The AAOHN module is a text-based presentation that includes a quiz you take to receive credit. To complete the continuing education module, go to the online learning page in the continuing education section of the AAOHN website (http://www.aaohn.org/education/online-learning/index.cfm).

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• Fact Sheet: Environmental Chemicals and Breast Cancer Risk: Why is There Concern? Text or PDF
  
• Bibliography: Environmental Chemicals and Breast Cancer Risk: Why is There Concern?
  
• EnviroChem and Cancer Database (ECCD)
  
• Bibliography for the EnviroChem and Cancer Database (ECCD)
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Last Update 04.14.05

Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors
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Email: breastcancer@cornell.edu

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