Prevention and Risk Reduction:
The Environment of the Disease
What in the environment—interacting with which characteristics or conditions of a particular woman’s body—increases her risk of developing breast cancer? Despite efforts to identify genes that cause breast cancer and environmental risk factors, the disease seems to strike women at random. The CBCRP especially encourages new California-based studies to understand the environmental aspects of breast cancer, and how these increase risk and impact different communities of California women.
We divide research in this area into two Priority Issues:
• Etiology: Finding the Causes
• Prevention: Ending the Danger of Breast Cancer
