"New Lessons From In Vitro, In Vivo, Wildlife Biology and Epidemiology Regarding Avoidable Causes of Breast Cancer" is the topic for a toxicology seminar by Devra Davis on April 30 at 4 p.m. in the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) auditorium at Cornell.
A reception and book signing will be held for Davis, author of "When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution" (Basic Books, 2002), from 3:30 to 4 p.m. the same day in the BTI atrium.
The research seminar on campus is presented by Cornell's Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology and the program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors. A second presentation for the general public, titled "The New Sisterhood of Breast Cancer," is scheduled for April 30 at 7 p.m. in the Women's Community Building, 100 W. Seneca St., in downtown Ithaca, as part of the 2003 Annual Celebration of the Ithaca Breast Cancer Alliance.
Davis, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, is a visiting professor of public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. In her book, which won the 2002 National Book Award bronze medal, Davis traces her epidemiologist's interest in the environmental causes of breast cancer and chronic disease to a childhood in "Smogtown USA," as Donora, Pa., once was known. There, coal-burning steel mills had so befouled the environment that beauticians made house calls because survivors of the 1948 smog emergency were tethered to oxygen tanks and could not climb the town's hills to reach beauty parlors.
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