Summary of the Third Meeting of the Ad Hoc Advisory
Committee
 The Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project (LIBCSP) is a multi-study
effort to investigate environmental factors that may be responsible
for breast cancer in Suffolk, Nassau, and Schoharie counties, NY,
and in Tolland County, CT. The LIBCSP is congressionally mandated
under Public Law 103-43 of June 10, 1993, "Study of Elevated Breast
Cancer Rates in Long Island." Responsibility for the effort is with
the National Cancer Institute (NCI), in collaboration with the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The Ad Hoc Advisory
Committee of scientific experts and community breast cancer advocates
was established in 1995 and meets annually or as needed. This meeting
was chaired by Dr. Mimi Yu, Professor, University of Southern California
School of Medicine, Los Angeles. Dr. Yu is the committee co-chair.
(The other co-chair position is presently vacant.) The first meeting
of the committee was in March 1995, along with a town meeting on
the LIBCSP. The second annual meeting was held in April 1996.
This latest committee meeting included presentations by LIBCSP
investigators, a panel discussion on radiation and breast cancer,
a presentation on the Cape Cod Study by The Silent Spring Institute,
a report on the Environmental Exposure Working Group meeting, and
updates on NCI activities and on plans for the geographic information
system (GIS) to be developed to support the Project.
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