Other topics will include the relationships between exercise, body weight, and body fat and breast cancer. The fact sheets described above are an example of a traditional way to communicate health information. The result will be knowledgeable resource people available to answer questions and conduct community programs on risk reduction. As soon as funding permits, we will have video teleconferencing into each county, creating an interactive setting for concerned individuals, health professionals, and community leaders to discuss risk reduction. Breast Cancer risk reduction plays an important role at every life stage, and the involvement of mothers, daughters, and grandmothers is needed to provide the role models necessary to support healthful behaviors, and to promote community health policies that could reduce environmental risks.
Researchers are, however, gathering more evidence about certain vulnerable periods.
There is growing evidence that breast cancer risk is greatly influenced by events and exposures in childhood and young adulthood. Intervention in childhood to prevent cancer later in life is a very new approach. What is clear though, is that children and teenagers can only make health behavior changes that are reinforced by their families, schools, and communities. An intergenerational risk reduction strategy takes into account all of these influences. We believe that breast cancer can be reduced and that information and education are one step in that direction.