Core Science
Ionizing Radiation
Ionizing radiation is an established risk factor for breast cancer. Minimizing radiation dose to breast tissue is critically important, particularly...
Alcohol
Alcohol consumption increases a woman’s risk for breast cancer. By limiting how much you drink, you can reduce your risk....
Chemicals in Consumer Products
Everyday consumer products like beauty products, cleaning products, and food packaging can contain harmful chemicals linked to breast cancer. Read...
Diet and Nutrition
The more we limit eating processed meat, and foods that are high in saturated fat, salt, and sugar, we can...
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding protects mothers against all types of breast cancer because it causes protective physiological changes in the breast. The longer...
Air Pollution and Breast Cancer Study
Air pollutants come from both traffic and non-traffic sources such as gas wells, hazardous waste sites, landfills, and polyvinyl chloride...
Race, Power, and Inequities
Breast cancer incidence is not distributed equally among different ethnic or racial communities or groups, due to a number of...
California Breast Cancer Plan: Paths to Prevention
Paths to Prevention: The California Breast Cancer Primary Prevention Plan is the first ever comprehensive primary prevention plan for breast cancer....
Behind the Science: Ep. 3 Equity, stress, and firefighters
We spoke with BCPP Science Advisory Panel Member Rachel Morello-Frosch, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley School of Public...