250909 Breast Biologues: A biology dialogue about breast cancer and the environment

Wednesday, November 2, 2011: 12:44 PM

Lori Schkufza , Gutter Rabbit, Montreal, QC, Canada
Casandra Aldsworth, MPH , Bay Area Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program, Zero Breast Cancer, San Rafael, CA
Janice Barlow, BSN, PHN, CPNP , Zero Breast Cancer, Zero Breast Cancer, San Rafael, CA
Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, PhD , Departments of Radiation Oncology and Cell Biology, New York University Langone School of Medicine, New York, NY
Paul Yaswen, PhD , Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Zena Werb, PhD , Department of Anatomy, Biomedical Sciences Program and the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
How does the breast develop and how do exposures to potential cancer-causing chemicals at specific times during development influence future breast cancer risk? The Bay Area Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center (BABCERC) produced a new video called The Breast Biologues: A biology dialogue about breast cancer and the environment that answers these questions. The 15-minute video is a visual science-based storyline incorporating time-lapse imaging that explains how the normal breast develops and how exposures to potential cancer-causing chemicals at specific points during development might influence future breast cancer risk. The video is narrated by Peter Coyote and highlights some of the fascinating genetic and cellular insights we have gained about normal breast development and its relationship to breast cancer risk. The video is part of an education kit which also includes a narrative comic book. The narrative comic book, available in English and Spanish, is a colorful booklet made up of artwork from the video and accompanied by brief descriptive prose.

Learning Areas:
Basic medical science applied in public health
Environmental health sciences
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Public health biology
Public health or related education
Public health or related nursing

Learning Objectives:
1. Explain why breast cancer is important to study and understand. 2. List two ways that basic science research is conducted. 3. Identify a period of development when the breast may be more sensitive to environmental exposures. 4. Describe how the breast develops. 5. Explain how a normal cell turns into a cancer cell. 6. Discuss why basic scientists focus on normal breast development to understand how cancer occurs. 7. Name the best documented environmental exposure known to cause cancer. 8. Discuss how basic science research advances prevention, detection and treatment of breast cancer.

Keywords: Breast Cancer, Research

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: coordinate the outreach and translation efforts of the Bay Area Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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