Barriers and opportunities for breast cancer organizations to focus on environmental health and disease prevention: a mixed-methods approach using website analyses, interviews, and focus groups.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women worldwide and most cases are not due to high risk inherited genes. In response, breast cancer activists successfully advocated for innovative research on environmental chemical exposures as a possible cause. Since then, new evidence supports hypotheses that common industrial and consumer chemicals are linked to the disease, and expert panels recommend reducing exposures. We evaluated whether these research results and recommendations are translated back into the work of breast cancer organizations and what barriers and opportunities influence their ability to focus on environmental factors. METHODS:We used a Python script to evaluate the frequency of environmental terms on the websites of 81 breast cancer organizati

SUBMITTER: Ohayon JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7011560 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature