3 April 2013 CHE Partnership call: Breast Cancer and the Environment: Prioritizing Prevention.

The congressionally mandated Interagency Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Coordinating Committee (IBCERCC) report made seven clear recommendations to enhance research to focus on breast cancer prevention by clearly building the evidence base for environmental exposures across the lifespan that cause the disease. On this call on Michele Forman, PhD, and Jeanne Rizzo, RN, Chair and Co-Chair of the IBCERCC Committee present the report and Linda Birnbaum, PhD, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, provided her agency’s perspective. Julia Brody, PhD, Executive Director of the Silent Spring Institute and Karen Miller, President of the Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition commented as responders to the primary presentations.