Public Forum Highlights Breast Cancer and Environment Links
CINCINNATIThe sixth annual public education forum, Looking Upstream for Environmental Links to Breast Cancer, will be held from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 24, at the Reading Campus (formerly Genome Research Institute).
Presented by the Cincinnati Breast Cancer & the Environment Research Center (BCERC), the forum provides timely information on potential environmental links to breast cancer and an update on the centers research.
The 2010 forum features speakers on soy and breast cancer, and vitamin D and breast cancer.
Registration must be received by April 16. The cost to attend is $15 and includes a buffet breakfast and educational materials. Learn more at http://eh.uc.edu/growingupfemale/.
The Cincinnati BCERC is one of four national centers funded by the National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
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