The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has just released a large-scale report reviewing the evidence for the role of certain lifestyle variables and environmentalfactors in breast cancer risk.
Enhanced investments would facilitate sustained coordination across research and regulatory agencies with the objective of reducing or eliminating harmful environmental exposures and modifying social and lifestyle factors implicated in breast cancer.
More specifically, the report highlights the need to make breast cancer research more interdisciplinary, to conduct more research into chemical and physical environmentalfactors, and to improve the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).