Translational Cancer Research Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) at Cornell University

The American Cancer Society has estimated that in the year 2000, 176,300 women in the United States (U.S.) will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and over 25% of these women will die of this disease (http:/fwww.cancer.org/statistics/). It has been estimated that only about one half of breast cancer risk can be attributed to known risk factors, such as advancing age, genetics, early menarche, late menopause, and late age at first birthlp2. While pesticides may be considered by some to be an unproven risk, there has been widespread public concern about the