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Zero Breast Cancer’s Accomplishments
2008
Since our beginning, Zero Breast Cancer has sought out, supported and nurtured
relationships with exceptionally talented and dedicated breast cancer
researchers. We have played a central role in motivating and sustaining
breast cancer research efforts here in Marin County. We have opened
new doors by advocating for new research directions and by seeking
out new energy, new funding and new resources to address our community’s
concerns about Marin’s historically high rates of breast cancer.
Successfully, we have connected local and national breast cancer
research to community concerns and have promoted community awareness,
education, and public action.
Our goal has been to include those directly and potentially affected
by breast cancer throughout the research process. No other breast
cancer organization or community agency matches the degree to which
Zero Breast Cancer has brought community members and scientists
together through educational forums, town hall meetings, community
meetings, mapping workshops, community advisory boards and research
studies. Through our newsletter, with a circulation of 4,000, our
website and community presentations, we have endeavored to place
the results of breast cancer research into the hands of the community
so that these findings can inform personal and public decision-making
processes.
Zero Breast Cancer's mission is to find the causes of breast cancer though
community participation in the research process. Working toward that goal,
our 2008 highlights and accomplishments include:
- Assuming both a local and national leadership role in the
Bay Area Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center collaborative study
with UCSF and Northern California Kaiser Permanente
- Partnering with Northern California Kaiser Permanente on
the largest prospective study on Breast Cancer Survivorship in the Bay Area
- Hosting the third annual public education forum attended
by community members and researchers from the Bay Area Breast Cancer and the
Environment Research Center
- Sponsoring a stem cell conference in partnership with Dominican
University of California
- Increasing awareness about breast cancer and the role
environmental stressors play in the development of breast cancer through our
educational materials, interviews and feature stories in the media, publication
of a biannual newsletter and our website, www.zerobreastcancer.org
- Creating a bilingual breast cancer education brochure for Latina adolescents
- Collaborating with a small, entrepreneurial research and software
company to develop new tools for investigating the role of residency history in breast
cancer incidence
- Participating on numerous Bay Area Scientific and Community Advisory
Boards (UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, Community Advisory Board; Northern California
Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Gene, Environment and Health Initiative Community
Advisory Board; Marin County Department of Health and Human Services, Steering Committee,
Marin Women's Study; and Marin Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Survivorship Community
Advisory Board)
We rely on your support.
For more information:
Zero Breast Cancer
4340 Redwood Hwy, Suite C400
San Rafael, CA 94903
(415) 507-1949
info@zerobreastcancer.org
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