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Looking Upstream for Environmental Links to Breast Cancer

Breast cancer touches thousands of lives every year, many of them right here in Greater Cincinnati.  There is a growing scientific understanding that environmental factors impact breast development, health and disease.

Looking Upstream for Environmental Links to Breast Cancer is your opportunity to get expert background on the science we already know, what is means, and why it matters all explained in everyday language.

Come to understands how the scientists study the links between the environment and breast health, and to learn what top researchers will be targeting next.

Keynote speaker Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream and Having Faith, has won widespread praise for her ability to present science to a non-technical audience.  She will share her insights as a biologist, mother and a cancer survivor.

 

May 14, 2005 Forum

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Kim Dietrich PhD
  Early Origins of Adult Disease
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Debbie Clegg PhD
  Why Obesity and Diet Matter
  Low speed 33 minutes
  High speed 33 minutes
   
Sue Heffelfinger
  Studying Environmental Links to Breast Cancer: A National Approach
  Low speed 23 minutes
  High speed 23 minutes
   
Frank Biro MD
  Growing Up Female: A Local Study of Environmental Exposures in Young Girls
  Low speed 14 minutes
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Keynote Speaker

Sandra Steingraber, PhD
  Environmental Threats to the Human Breast: Prenatal to Post-Menopausal Exposures
  Low speed 85 minutes
  High speed 85 minutes