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Education
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Breast Cancer works to facilitate an active exchange of information
with community members. Through workshops, forums and community
education programs, Zero Breast Cancer translates complex research
projects to make science more understandable and to promote community
action.
Education Programs Include:
- Workshops on conducting community-based research and understanding
breast cancer research techniques.
- Community forums and town hall meetings with national breast
cancer researchers.
- Outreach to adolescent girls to give them information to make
healthy choices about their lives.
Breast Cancer and Environment - Peer Education Tool Kit
The Breast Cancer and Environment Peer Education Tool Kit is a program designed to
increase awareness of breast cancer risk factors and modifiable environmental factors
relevant to teens. Zero Breast Cancer created this peer education single lesson module
targeted to teens, based on current breast cancer research and a formative community
assessment of Marin County teachers, parents and adolescent girls.
Click here to learn more about this project
The Promise of Stell Cell Research in Human Health
February 9, 2008
Dominican University
Dominican University of California and Zero Breast Cancer invite you to
attend an important conference at Dominican University of California on Saturday,
February 9, 2008. Please join us for this informative forum which will bring
together internationally acclaimed stem cell researchers, public health
professionals, public policy leaders, students and community members for an
interactive exchange of information about current issues involving the ethics,
policy, and science of stem cell research. The forum will highlight the abundance
of stem cell research being conducted throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Discussions will focus on the potential benefits of stem cells as applied to
diseases of broad community concern, such as breast cancer, fertility and
reproduction, heart failure, and other diseases associated with aging.
Click the link below to visit the official conference website for registration, program and
speaker information:
www.dominican.edu/stemcellconference
Exercise and Breast Cancer
The purpose of the project was to sponsor a community educational
forum on January 18, 2007 to explore the relationship:
- Between physical activity and breast cancer risk
- Between physical activity and recurrence, length of survival
and
quality of life for women with breast cancer.
Included in the presentations were discussions of how younger
and older breast cancer patients may differ in their responses
to physical activity.
The role physical activity may play in addressing the unique challenges
faced by younger women with breast cancer will also be explored.
Featured Speakers:
Leslie Bernstein, PhD
Professor, Preventive Medicine
AFLAC, Inc. Chair of Cancer Research
University of Southern California, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Joan Bloom, PhD
Professor of Health Policy and Management
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Toxic Bust: Chemicals and Breast Cancer
Over 130 people attended a sneak preview of the upcoming
film Toxic Bust: Chemicals and Breast Cancer at the Lark
Theater on February 16, 2006. Blending fiction and documentary, Toxic
Bust is both an informative and emotionally engaging documentary
that gives voice and cultural context to women's experience
of breast cancer while revealing the relationship between degradation
of our bodies and of our environment. The film suggests that
our breasts are fast becoming a repository for environmental
toxins.
> Click here to
read the full article.
Interested
in the recent 2005 Stress and Breast Cancer Forum with Dr. David
Spiegel?
> Click to view
the recap of this forum.
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