Do environmental chemicals affect the risk of cancer?

This is a question being asked by scientists, cancer advocates, educators, policy makers, and those exposed to environmental chemicals in their homes and workplaces.

In 1995 the Cornell University Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors was founded because concerned citizens and policy makers wanted to know if there was a relationship between pesticides and higher than average breast cancer rates in many New York State counties.

This new translational research program was launched to provide science-based information on environmental risk factors and cancer.