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For Immediate Release: Novemeber
19, 2002
Media Contact: Suellen
Bilow (415) 557-4282
Wallace
Stegner Environmental Center of the
San Francisco Public Library presents
Breast Cancer and the Bay Area
Free public program on Tuesday,
December 10
What do San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point and Marin County share in common?
Unfortunately, some of the highest rates of breast cancer in the country.
Many of us are familiar with common risk factors such as genetic factors,
diet and exercise, but when all known risk factors and characteristics
are added together, more than 50% of breast cancer cases remain unexplained.
Why? Emerging science tells us there is a strong link between breast
cancer and toxins in our environment.
On Tuesday, December 10 at 6:30pm, a distinguished panel of experts and community
advocates will come together at the San Francisco Main Library for
an in-depth discussion about breast cancer, the environment and our
local communities. This free public program, presented in partnership
with The Breast Cancer fund, will be held in the San Francisco Main
Library's Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street (near Grove and Market)
at Civic Center.
Ruth Rosen, editorial writer and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, will
facilitate the evening's dialogue. Panelists include: Karen Goodson
Pierce, Coordinator of the Bayview Hunters Point Health and Environmental
Assessment Task Force; Janice Barlow, Executive Director of Marin Breast
Cancer Watch; and Nancy Evans, a health science writer and editor with
more than three decades of experience in health care publishing.
"Breast Cancer and the Bay Area" is sponsored by the Wallace
Stegner Environmental Center of the San Francisco
Public Library in partnership with The Breast Cancer Fund and is funded
by a grant from the Mary A. Crocker Trust.
All programs and exhibitions at the Library
are free of charge and open to the public.
For more information, please call (415) 557-4277.
Panelists
- Karen Goodson Pierce is Coordinator of the Bayview Hunters Point Health and Environmental Assessment Task Force, an environmental health and justice project of the SF Dept. of Public Health, in collaboration with community residents, UCSF, and other institutions. She coordinated the Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP) community health assessment, a participatory action research project and co-edited the BVHP Community Survey Report (2001). Currently she serves as president of the Board of Directors of the Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates, a nonprofit community-based organization focused on addressing environmental justice issues.
- Janice Barlow is Executive Director of Marin Breast Cancer Watch, a grassroots,
non-profit organization dedicated to finding the causes and stopping the
epidemic of breast cancer. She is currently the co-principal investigator
of a pilot study in Marin County to collect and map (using GIS) environmental
data to help inform future research studies in Marin. She is a member of
the Breast Cancer Coordinating Council of Marin County, the Marin Breast
Cancer Research Collaborative and the Bay Area Cancer Coalition.
- Nancy Evans, a health science writer and editor with more than three decades
of experience in health care publishing, serves on the editorial board of
American Journal of Nursing. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991, she became
a leader in the grassroots breast cancer movement. During 1998, she served
on the Board of The Breast Cancer Fund, and currently works with The Fund
as their health science consultant. She is co-producer (with Allie Light
and Irving Saraf) of the 1997 documentary, Rachel's Daughters: Searching
for the Causes of Breast Cancer. She is co-author of TBCF's Pathway's to
Prevention: Eight Practical Steps -- from the Personal to the Political
-- Toward Reducing Breast Cancer, (March 2000). She is also the editor of
State of the Evidence: What is the Connection between Chemicals and Breast
Cancer? (The Breast Cancer Fund, 2002).
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