Environmental Links to Breast Cancer to Be Discussed at May 12 Program
UC's Breast Cancer & the Environment Research Center (BCERC), one of only four National Institutes of Health centers of its kind in the country, will be sponsoring its third annual public forum on May 12.
"Looking Upstream for Environmental Links to Breast Cancer" will run from 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at UC's Genome Research Institute. Keynote speaker Marcia Herman-Giddens, an adjunct professor of maternal and child health at the University of North Carolina, will be presenting "Too Much Too Soon: Puberty, Environment and the Collapse of Cultural Boundaries Defining Childhood."
More details on the event are available in the following PDF document: http://www.eh.uc.edu/growingupfemale/pdfs/bcercUpstrm07_final.pdf
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