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Cancer and the Environment
American Association for Cancer Research


Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors

provides science-based information on the relationships between breast cancer and environmental risk factors, including pesticides and dietary factors. Our materials are developed for a diverse audience, including consumers, educators, public policy makers, scientists, media representatives.


Cancer Information Services from The National Cancer Institute's (NCI's)

a national information and education network. The CIS is a free public service of the NCI, the Nation's primary agency for cancer research.


Cancer Research

Support cutting edge research and groundbreaking discoveries


Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation

The Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation is a cancer prevention health foundation whose mission is the prevention and early detection of cancer through scientific research and education. The Foundation focuses its energies and resources on those cancers — including lung, breast, prostate, colorectal, cervical, skin and testicular — that can be prevented through lifestyle changes or detection and treatment in their early stages.


Cancer Research Institute

The Cancer Research Institute was founded in 1953 to foster the science of cancer immunology, which is based on the premise that the body's immune system can be mobilized against cancer. This field, which CRI helped pioneer and develop, has been recognized throughout the world as offering great hope for the ultimate prevention and treatment of human cancer. For five decades, the Institute has been a sustaining force in cancer and immunology research. The Institute has supported more than 2,750 scientists and clinicians at leading universities and research centers worldwide.


E Hormone

E.Hormone is sponsored and designed by the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities as a gateway to the environment and hormones by informing on such diverse issues as environmental research, endocrine research, estrogens, hormones, environmental signaling and endocrine disrupters."


Enviornmental Health Perspectives: 10th Congressional Report on carcinogens

EHP is your source for research and news on environmental factors that effect human health. This page provides a link to a pdf file of the 10th Congressional Report on known carcinogens.


Silent Spring

SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE is a non-profit scientific research organization dedicated to identifying the links between the environment and women's health, especially breast cancer. We are a groundbreaking collaboration of scientists, physicians, health advocates, and community activists, and a leading edge research institution using multi-disciplinary, state-of-the-art approaches.


The Breast Cancer Fund

An organization dedicated to identifying and eliminating environmental causes of breast cancer. Extensive site containing their newsletter, breast cancer resources, opportunities for action, events and news.


The Collaborative on Health and the Environment

a nonpartisan partnership network working to further knowledge, action and cooperation regarding environmental contributors to disease.


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