Reminder! Teleconference on breast cancer and occupational health - January 8

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A discussion of a Canadian case-control study

Tuesday January 8, 2013 at 10:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Eastern*

The Collaborative on Health and the Environment is hosting this educational teleconference on occupational exposures of women to chemicals and endocrine disruptors -- and therefore on links between occupational exposures and breast cancer specifically.

In November 2012, a landmark paper titled “Breast cancer risk in relation to occupations with exposure to carcinogens and endocrine disruptors: a Canadian case-control study” was published in the journal Environmental Health. In this groundbreaking study the authors showed that across all sectors, women in jobs with potentially high exposures to carcinogens and endocrine disruptors had elevated breast cancer risk and that premenopausal breast cancer risk was highest for automotive plastics and food canning workers.

The two key authors of this study, James Brophy, PhD and Margaret Keith, PhD will join Jeanne Rizzo, RN, President and CEO of the Breast Cancer Fund and Charlotte Brody, RN, Associate Director, Health Initiatives, BlueGreen Alliance to discuss this study and its implications for the safety of workers and others and on occupational health policy on Tuesday January 8, 2013 at 10:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Eastern.

Find out more and register on CHE’s website.

Read more about this study and related information on CWHN's website, Women, Plastics and Breast Cancer

*Please note that there are long distance charges for this call. You may also listen to it for free on-line after the call is over.