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Parents & Caregivers Learn more about your role as parents, parents-to-be, or caregivers of girls in taking steps to reduce your girl's risk of developing breast cancer as an adult due to environmental exposures. More for Parents & Caregivers Health Professionals Learn more about your role as health professionals in caring for and educating pregnant women, parents, and caregivers of young girls on what they can do to help reduce a girl’s risk of developing breast cancer as an adult due to environmental exposures. More for Health Professionals Outreach Organizations and Advocates Learn about the current science on environmental exposures and breast cancer risk and how to translate it into steps that others can take to reduce their risk of developing the disease. More for Outreach Organizations Researchers Learn more about how the research program works to understand environmental exposures during windows of susceptibility and the impact on the risk of developing breast cancer. More for Researchers

15th Annual BCERP Meeting – Breast Cancer Outreach & Advocacy Efforts: A Legacy Still in Action

Held June 16, 2021 virtually on Zoom

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July 18 & 19, 2019

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The BCERP: A transdisciplinary study of the effects of environmental exposures on mammary development and breast cancer risk

The Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program (BCERP) is a joint effort co-funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Cancer Institute. The BCERP supports a multidisciplinary network of scientists, clinicians, and community partners to examine the effects of ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES that may predispose a woman to breast cancer throughout her life.

The BCERP aims to examine WINDOWS OF SUSCEPTIBILITY that could be informative, especially in light of novel findings of the effects of diet, hormone replacement therapy, and long-term exposure to agents such as ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS in adults, as well as children.

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Funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH, DHHS
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ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS
Naturally occurring compounds or man-made substances that may mimic or interfere with the function of hormones in the body.
WINDOWS OF SUSCEPTIBILITY
Specific time periods throughout the lifespan when exposures to environmental factors may directly or indirectly affect the risk of developing a disease.
ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES
Contact with substances, such as chemicals or small particles, through the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink, and things we touch and put on our skin.