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Environmental pollutants, diet, physical activity, body size, and breast cancer

Where do we stand in research to identify opportunities for prevention?

  1. Julia Green Brody PhD1,†,*,
  2. Ruthann A. Rudel MS1,
  3. Karin B. Michels ScD, PhD2,3,
  4. Kirsten B. Moysich PhD4,
  5. Leslie Bernstein PhD5,
  6. Kathleen R. Attfield BS1,
  7. Sharon Gray MA, MLS1

Article first published online: 14 MAY 2007

DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22656

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Cancer

Cancer

Supplement: Environmental Factors in Breast Cancer

Volume 109, Issue Supplement 12, pages 2627–2634, 15 June 2007

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Brody, J. G., Rudel, R. A., Michels, K. B., Moysich, K. B., Bernstein, L., Attfield, K. R. and Gray, S. (2007), Environmental pollutants, diet, physical activity, body size, and breast cancer. Cancer, 109: 2627–2634. doi: 10.1002/cncr.22656

Author Information

  1. 1

    Silent Spring Institute, Newton, Massachusetts

  2. 2

    Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

  3. 3

    Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

  4. 4

    Department of Epidemiology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York

  5. 5

    Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

  1. †

    Fax: (617) 332-4284

*Silent Spring Institute, 29 Crafts St., Newton, MA 02458

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 4 JUN 2007
  2. Article first published online: 14 MAY 2007
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 30 JAN 2007
  4. Manuscript Revised: 3 JAN 2007
  5. Manuscript Received: 18 JUL 2006

Funded by

  • Komen for the Cure as part of the Environmental Factors and Breast Cancer Science Review project led by Silent Spring Institute with collaborating investigators at Harvard Medical School
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute
  • University of Southern California

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