Breast Cancer & the Environment Research Centers
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Leslie J. Reinlib, Ph.D.
Program Director -
Tel (919) 541-4998
Fax (919) 316-4606
reinlib@niehs.nih.gov -
P.O. Box 12233
Mail Drop MD EC-21
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
Delivery Instructions
Description
The Breast Cancer & the Environment Research Centers (BCERC) is a seven-year project jointly funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Cancer Institute. The centers are studying the impact of prenatal-to-adult environmental exposures that may predispose a woman to breast cancer.
Functioning as a consortium of basic scientists, epidemiologists, research translational units, community outreach experts, and community advocates within and across centers, BCERC is investigating mammary gland development in animals and young girls to determine vulnerability to environmental agents that may influence breast cancer development in adulthood.
A major outcome of the BCERC is to develop public health messages designed to educate young girls and women who are at high risk of breast cancer about the role(s) of specific environmental stressors in breast cancer and how to reduce exposures to those stressors. These public health messages will be based on the integration of the basic biological, toxicological, and epidemiologic data.
State of the Evidence: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment
Program Contacts
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Caroline Dilworth, Ph.D.
Health Scientist Administrator, Division of Extramural Research and Training, HHICC Program Lead -
P.O. Box 12233, Mail Drop K3-12
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
Tel (919) 541-7727
Fax (919) 316-4606
dilworthch@niehs.nih.gov
- Gary L. Ellison, Ph.D.
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National Cancer Institute
EPN - Executive Plaza North, 5108
Mail Stop 7324
6130 Executive Blvd.
Rockville, MD
Tel (301) 402-1853
Fax (301) 402-4279
ellisong@mail.nih.gov
- Christie Kaefer
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National Cancer Institute
EPN Executive Plaza North, 5109
Mail Stop 7393
6130 Executive Blvd.
Rockville, MD
Tel (301) 435-4906
Fax (301) 435-6609
kaeferc@mail.nih.gov
- Elizabeth Maull, Ph.D.
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P.O. Box 12233, Mail Drop K3-12
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
Tel (919) 316-4668
Fax (919) 316-4606
maull@niehs.nih.gov
- Neeraja Sathyamoorthy, Ph.D.
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National Cancer Institute
EPN Executive Plaza North, 5070
Mail Stop 7364
6130 Executive Blvd.
Rockville, MD
Tel (301) 435-1878
Fax (301) 435-0864
sathyamn@mail.nih.gov
