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The Future of Cancer: Primary Prevention, the President’s Cancer Panel, and the New CHE Cancer Consensus Statement

Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008 at 10 AM Pacific / 1 PM Eastern

What would a science-based cancer prevention agenda look like?

As the President’s Cancer Panel begins its series of four hearings on different aspects of cancer and the environment, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE), in collaboration with Organizational Partners the Breast Cancer Fund and the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, is taking action to make sure the panel gets the message: Preventing cancer requires more than encouraging people to quit smoking.

Please join us on Thursday, Sept. 4 at 10 AM Pacific/ 1 PM Eastern for a teleconference about the President’s Cancer Panel, the new CHE Cancer Consensus Statement, and the future of cancer prevention in the United States and around the world. All CHE Partners (and non-Partners too!) are invited to attend this call, which will be hosted by the CHE Cancer Working Group.

Preventing cancer means acknowledging that cancer is caused by the interaction of many different factors, including genetics, lifestyle choices, and exposures to chemical carcinogens and other environmental agents. Preventing cancer means looking at how cancer-contributing chemicals get into our air, water, food, consumer products and occupational environments in the first place. Preventing cancer begins with getting informed. We hope you will join us.

RSVP for “The Future of Cancer” to shelby@healthandenvironment.org

Learn more about the President’s Cancer Panel at http://www.healthandenvironment.org/articles/doc/4199