Professor & Director Tufts University School of Medicine Boston, MA, United States
Disclosure(s):
Charlotte Kuperwasser, PhD: No relevant disclosure to display
Incidence of hormone dependent cancers are set to increase over the coming decades and there is growing evidence that exogenous factors impact the endocrine drivers of such diseases. We don't fully understand the influence of endocrine disrupting chemicals on cancer incidence and with the introduction of thresholds for steroid hormones in drinking water (EU directive) it is timely to focus on environmental factors that may impact the development of endocrine related cancers.
Learning Objectives:
Discuss how the lived environment may influence breast cancer risk and aggressiveness through hormones and inflammation.
Understand how prostate cancer risk in the offspring is altered by exposures during gestation.
Discuss how nongenetic/epigenetic changes that drive cancer risk are influenced by endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
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