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WHAT'S NEW
Recently Released: Proceedings from the 2007 UCSF-CHE Fertility Summit (published in the journal of Fertility and Sterility) Join CHE Alaska on May 28 for a teleconference on "The Global Transport of Persistent Chemicals to the Arctic" 5/9/08: CHE featured in AARP: "The Body Toxic" 5/9/08: CHE Partner Dr. Philip Landrigan interview in Discover: "How Much Do Chemicals Affect Our Health?"
4/15/08: Now available: State of the Evidence 2008: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment 2/20/08: CHE LDDI scientific consensus statement on environmental factors. 1/25/08: New environmental health-themed issue of San Francisco Medicine, journal of the San Francisco Medical Society, is now available online. 3/1/08: Two new chemicals policy reports from the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. 9/1/07: The BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields
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Cancer Working GroupCHE’s Cancer Working Group is a diverse gathering of health professionals, scientists, patient groups and concerned individuals. We welcome CHE Partners who would like to participate in a national discussion on cancer.
CHE also has an active Breast Cancer Working Group, which originated as a subgroup of CHE Cancer, and has produced the 2006 Consensus Statement on Breast Cancer and the Environment. The CHE Cancer Working Group is coordinated by Jeanne Rizzo, RN, Executive Director of the Breast Cancer Fund, Diana Zuckerman, PhD, President of the National Center for Policy Research (CPR) for Women & Families, and Michael Lerner, PhD, President of Commonweal. For more information about this group, contact Shelby Gonzalez at: Shelby@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: checancer-subscribe@lists.healthandenvironment.org. Cancer EventsInternational Occupational and Environmental Cancer Prevention Conference
When: April 25, 2008
Where: Stirling, Scotland
Cancer Working Group NewsPrenatal Origins of Cancer: New Documents
The Prenatal Origins of Cancer Spreadsheet presents the results of a comprehensive search of the scientific literature for evidence that postnatal cancers may be determined prior to birth. The spreadsheet contains over 750 published articles examining a wide range of exposures from smoking and air pollution, to industrial chemicals, to maternal factors such as illness and medication. Studies were categorized according to the exposure and the system affected (e.g., blood, brain, breast) and summary tables and charts were created to help describe the data. Prenatal Origins of Cancer: Summary [PDF] Spreadsheet [PDF] System Analysis [PDF] Exposure Patterns Analysis [PDF] Paternal Exposure Patterns Analysis [PDF] Charts [PDF] Updated: Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer: A Review of Recent Scientific Literature, 2007 Edition
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Lowell & Boston University recently concluded in an updated scientific review, Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer: New Evidence, 2005-2007, that mounting evidence linking unintentional exposures to toxins in our workplaces and general environment contribute to the nearly one and a half million new cases of cancer in the U.S. in just 2007 alone.
Upcoming CHE Cancer Calls
Stay tuned for upcoming CHE Cancer Calls.Other Information About Environmental Links to Cancer
This page includes useful references, articles, reports, etc, but does not include the CHE Peer Reviewed Analyses (with scientific references) on brain, breast, ovarian, prostate, or testicular cancers that you can find in the top right-hand corner of this page.Archive of past CHE Cancer Calls
View call notes, recordings and resources specific to CHE Cancer Calls here.Links To Useful Websites About Cancer and the Environment
Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer: A Review of Recent Scientific Literature, September 2005
A report initiated by CHE's Cancer Working Group, documenting associations between environmental and occupational exposures and certain cancers in the United States, created by Richard W. Clapp, D.Sc., Genevieve K. Howe, MPH, and Molly M. Jacobs, MPH, at the Boston University School of Public Health and Environmental Health Initiative, University of Massachusetts Lowell.Fetal Origins of Cancer Database
A compilation of scientific data about links between fetal exposure to pollutants and the risk of developing cancer later in life, gathered by Mary Bachran and Theo Colborn, Ph.D. at The Endocrine Disruption Exchange Inc. (TEDX Inc.). |
