Medio ambiente y el cáncer de mama

CUARTA EDICION

2006

Estado de la Evidencia

¿Cuál es la conexión entre el medio ambiente y el cáncer de mama?
Editado por Nancy Evans, Consultora en Ciencias de la Salud, Breast Cancer Fund

CUARTA EDICION

2006

Estado de la evidencia
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BREAST CANCER FUND 1388 Sutter St., Suite 400 San Francisco, CA 94109 Toll-free: 866-760-TBCF or 415-346-8223 415-346-2975 faxinfo@breastcancerfund.org www.breastcancerfund.org

¿Cuál es la conexión entre el medio ambiente y el cáncer de mama?
Editado por Nancy Evans, Consultora en Ciencias de la Salud,Breast Cancer Fund

BREAST CANCER ACTION 55 New Montgomery St., Suite 323 San Francisco, CA 94105 Toll-free: 877-2STOPBC or 415-243-9301 415-243-3996 fax info@bcaction.org www.bcaction.org

Agradecimientos
EditoresFor Breast Cancer Fund Nancy Evans, Health Science Consultant Jeanne Rizzo, R.N., Executive Director Kevin Donegan, Director of Communications Janet Nudelman, Director of Program and Policy Marisa Walker, Communications Coordinator For Breast Cancer Action Barbara Brenner, Executive Director Lisa Wanzor, Associate Director Rebecca Farmer, Communications Officer Developmental Editor Genevieve HoweResearch Assistance Ari Krakowski Design and Production Dennis Johnson Ika Simpson Cover Photo Mammogram of normal milk ducts in the breast; color added to emphasize ductal structure (BSIP Agency) Printing Bruce Printing, Inc. El Breast Cancer Fund y el Breast Cancer Action agradecen a los siguientes científicos expertos que revisaron y comentaron sobre Estado de la Evidencia: Janet Gray, Ph.D.,Professor, Department of Psychology and Program in Science, Technology and Society, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. Ted Schettler, M.D., M.P.H., Science Director, Science and Environmental Health Network, Boston, MA. Ana Soto, M.D., Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. Steven D. Stellman, Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor of ClinicalEpidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Los siguientes miembros de la facultad y personal del Instituto de Cáncer de la Universidads de Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; qyienes también revisaron y comentaron el borrador: Devra Lee Davis, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director, Center for Environmental Oncology, and Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of PublicHealth, University of Pittsburgh. Stephen Grant, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. Ronald Herberman, M.D., Director, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Cancer Centers and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Pittsburgh, and HillmanProfessor of Oncology and Professor of Medicine and Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Tiffany Miles, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Minority Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh and Center for Environmental Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Emanuela Taioli, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Cancer Prevention and PopulationSciences, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, and Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. Breast Cancer Fund and Breast Cancer Action are solely responsible for the content of this report. Some of the information included may not reflect the opinions of the above experts. The assistance of these experts with this report does not implyendorsement by their institutions. The Breast Cancer Fund agradece a las siguientes fundaciones, corporaciones e individuos por la producción e impresión de esta edición de Estado de la Evidencia. The Center for Environmental Oncology en el Instituto de Cáncer de la Universidad de Pittsburgh como parte del programa Healthy Places, Healthy People de la Highmark Foundation (visit www.environmental...