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New Podcast Episode on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

In our latest podcast episode, “The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on Breast Cancer” Breast Cancer Action’s Environmental Health Consultant Heather Sarantis interviews Dr. Barbara Cohn, the lead principal research investigator of the study Linking Neighborhood and Individual Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to Breast Cancer.

This study is being conducted through a partnership with Breast Cancer Action and Child Health and Development Studies (CHDS), and although the research team is in the early stages of analyzing the data, we’ve already seen some incredibly thought-provoking results. 

Listen to the episode now to learn more about ACEs and breast cancer risk,

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Welcome our new Executive Director

All of us at Breast Cancer Action are happy to welcome our new Executive Director, Dr. Krystal Redman! Krystal will build on the amazing work of our past executive directors, taking Breast Cancer Action’s social justice and equity work to the next level.
 
Dr. Redman has held executive leadership positions within social justice, reproductive justice, public health, and healthcare organizations. We are excited to have them on board.
 
You’ll hear more from them and about their plans in the coming weeks. Check out Krystal’s full bio on our website.
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SABCS: Our expert analysis on the latest treatment updates

For more than twenty years, Breast Cancer Action has attended the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS), providing our unique, patient-centered, and social justice perspective and reporting back to you on the latest breast cancer research and study updates.

Our team provided a deep and comprehensive summary of the latest updates presented at the conference. We covered everything from immunotherapy, to screening for Black women, and changes in treatment protocols which will spare more women from chemo.

Our professional, expert analysis comes to you without industry funding, and it shows.

Read the updates here

BCAction is in the news!

STAT News, a leading health and science publication, recently published an Op-Ed on our #WeCantBePinkd call to action directed at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

We’re urging the NCI to publicly share the extensive research linking chemical exposure and breast cancer risk. More than 100 public health and health and advocacy organizations, federal-level leaders, scientists, doctors and public health professionals endorsed our letter calling for this change.

Read the Op-Ed on this work now.

See the Op-Ed on STAT
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    • Jan 23 2021 Podcast: This research could change what we know about breast cancer By Jayla Burton, Program Officer Breast Cancer Action is committed to addressing the root causes of breast cancer and its disparities, from involuntary toxic exposures to the impact of chronic stress as a result of Adverse Childhood... ... read more
    • Jan 21 2021 Can Childhood Experiences Increase Breast Cancer Risk? By Heather Sarantis, Environmental Health Consultant to Breast Cancer Action and Guest Writer I have worked on breast cancer prevention for more than 15 years. Most recently, I co-authored Paths to Prevention: The California Breast... ... read more
    • Jan 21 2021 The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on Breast Cancer In this episode, Breast Cancer Action’s Environmental Health Consultant Heather Sarantis interviews Dr. Barbara Cohn, the lead research principal investigator of the study "Linking Neighborhood and Individual Adverse Childhood Experiences... ... read more
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About Breast Cancer Action

Breast Cancer Action is not your average breast cancer organization. We’re fiercely independent and refuse corporate funding from any company that profits from or contributes to breast cancer. That means we can ALWAYS put women’s health first.

We’re focused on achieving health justice for all women living with and at risk of breast cancer. Radical and compassionate, we never shy away from the hard truths. We tell it like it is about breast cancer: 40,000 women die of this devastating disease every year, and we don’t have nearly enough to show for the billions of dollars raised in the name of breast cancer.

BCAction was founded in 1990 by a handful of women who were living with and dying from breast cancer and who demanded answers about their disease. Today, BCAction is a national grassroots organization with members across the country. Together we’re challenging the status quo and working to address and end the breast cancer epidemic.

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