Karen Knudsen: Important new study links air pollution to breast cancer risk
Karen Knudsen, the past CEO of the American Cancer Society (ACS), posted on X about recent paper by Anna H. Wu et al., titled “Air Pollution and Breast Cancer Incidence in the Multiethnic Cohort Study” published on Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Authors: Anna H. Wu, Jun Wu, Chiuchen Tseng, Daniel O. Stram, Salma Shariff-Marco, Timothy Larson, Deborah Goldberg, Scott Fruin, Anqi Jiao, Pushkar P. Inamdar, Ugonna Ihenacho, Loïc Le Marchand, Lynne Wilkens, Christopher Haiman, Beate Ritz, and Iona Cheng
“Important new study links air pollution to breast cancer risk.
A possible contributor to the significant rise in incidence that continues to trend up in younger women?”
Karen E. Knudsen is the past CEO of the American Cancer Society (ACS). Prior to joining ACS, Dr. Knudsen served as executive vice president of Oncology Services and enterprise director for Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health. She also served as president for the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) and on the board of directors of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). She serves on the board of advisors for the National Cancer Institute and on 12 external advisory boards for NCI-designated cancer centers. She is an active member of several committees with the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO), in addition to serving on other academic and for-profit advisory boards.
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