Resources

• An analysis of cancer incidence trends from 2015-2050
• The 2023 National Cancer Plan
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy People 2030 goal of promoting healthier environments to improve health
• A National Institute for Environmental Health Science’s Workshop addressing racism through the lens of environmental justice
• The World Health Organization’s Asturias Pledge

Workshop Addressing Racism As a Public Health Issue Through the Lens of Environmental Health Disparities and Environmental Justice

• A comprehensive guide that provides resources to cancer coalitions: Nine Habits of Successful Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalitions
• A National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) webinar discussing the importance of partnerships for designing and implementing risk reduction strategies for environmental cancers
• A brief released after the above-mentioned webinar that summarizes key lessons for cancer coalitions when engaging in partnerships

• State-level environmental health tracking data includes data and information on environments and hazards, health effects, and population health. A portal to this information is through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website
• EJScreen – a mapping and screening tool that reveals patterns in environmental inequalities related to where people of color and/or low-income populations reside
  • Videos and informational guides to assist with the EJScreen mapping tool
• AirTox Screening Assessment – a mapping tool that includes emissions, ambient concentrations, and exposure estimates
  • Instructional video for the AirTox Screening tool
• The Environmental Working Group’s Tap Water Database – includes information about drinking water contamination, and its known impacts on human health
  • Instructional video for the EWG Tap Water database tool
• Clearya – a data tool for locating cancer-causing chemicals and other toxins that are found in personal care, cosmetics, baby products and cleaning products
  • Instructional video on using the Clearya tool
• The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics developed the Red List of Chemicals of Concern in Cosmetics to serve as a resource and tool to help consumer, brands, companies, and retailers reduce their use of toxic chemicals in the beauty and personal care products
• Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep Database – educates the public about the ingredients in their cosmetics and personal care products
  • Instructional guide on using the Skin Deep tool

• Environmental epidemiologists
• Environmental health researchers/scientists
• Industrial Hygienists
• Occupational medicine physicians
• Toxicologists

• American Industrial Hygiene Association
• Associations of Community Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics
• Centers of Health Equity
• Community-based organizations and health improvement partnerships
• Cooperative extension offices
• County or state health practitioner societies
• Faith-based organizations
• Office of Rural Health
• Schools of public health
• Society of Toxicology

• Clinicians and other health communication experts
• Community residents/leaders
• Environmental advocacy groups focused on the array of environmental health challenges
• Fish and wildlife managers
• Parks and environmental committees that might be part of a local government council
• State-based environmental health tracking experts

• The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer list of substances evaluated and classifications regarding ability to cause cancer in humans. https://monographs.iarc.who.int/agents-classified-by-the-iarc/
  • List of classifications by cancer site: https://monographs.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Classifications_by_cancer_site.pdf
• The U.S. National Toxicology Program’s Report on Carcinogens – a cumulative report that lists substances that are known or reasonably anticipated to cause cancer in humans: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/assessments/cancer/roc
  • A searchable list of carcinogen classifications. https://monographs.iarc.who.int/list-of-classifications
• Examples of studies of links between cancer and environmental/occupational exposures
  • Outdoor air pollution and childhood leukemia. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31017485/
  • Hair dye and chemical straightener use and breast cancer risk. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31797377/
  • Arsenic in drinking water and bladder cancer risk. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27140955/
  • Pancreatic cancer and living near to waste sites containing hazardous organic chemicals. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35876351/
  • Unconventional oil and gas development exposure and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35975995/
  • Diesel exhaust and bladder cancer risk. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31864026/
• Recent literature reviews of cancer risks associated with environmental and occupational exposures as queried through PubMed
  • Air pollution: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=cancer+risk%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D+AND+air+pollution+%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D&filter=datesearch.y_5
  • Endocrine disrupting chemicals: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=endocrine+disrupting+chemicals+%5BAbstract%5D+AND+and+cancer+%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D&filter=datesearch.y_5
  • Flame retardants: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=flame+retardants+%5BAbstract%5D+AND+cancer+%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D&filter=datesearch.y_5
  • Occupation and cancers: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=occupation+%5Btitle%2Fabstract%5D+and+cancer+%5Btitle%2Fabstract%5D&filter=datesearch.y_5
  • Pesticides: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=cancer+risk%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D+AND+pesticides%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D&sort=&filter=datesearch.y_5
  • PFAS: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=PFAS+%5BAbstract%5D+AND+cancer+%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D&filter=datesearch.y_5
  • Select heavy metals: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=cadmium%20and%20arsenic%20and%20chromium%20and%20cancer&filter=datesearch.y_5&page=2
  • Water contamination: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=water+contamination+and+cancer+%5BTitle%2FAbstract%5D&filter=datesearch.y_5
  • Childhood cancer and pesticides: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=childhood+cancer+and+pesticides&filter=datesearch.y_5
  • Childhood cancer and air pollution: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=childhood+cancer+and+air+pollution&filter=datesearch.y_5

• Baur X, Soskolne CL, Bero LA. How can the integrity of occupational and environmental health research be maintained in the presence of conflicting interests? Environ Health. 2019 Nov 4;18(1):93. doi: 10.1186/s12940-019-0527-x.
• Begley S. Insight: Science for hire – Trial over plastic exposes disclosure deficit. Reuters. July 18, 2015.
• Brandt AM. Inventing conflicts of interest: a history of tobacco industry tactics. Am J Public Health. 2012 Jan;102(1):63-71. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300292.
• Gottesfeld P. Lead Industry Influence in the 21st Century: An Old Playbook for a “Modern Metal”. Am J Public Health. 2022 Sep;112(S7):S723-S729. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.306960.
• McHenry LB. The Monsanto Papers: Poisoning the scientific well. Int J Risk Saf Med. 2018;29(3-4):193-205. doi: 10.3233/JRS-180028. PMID: 29843257.
• Michaels D. Doubt is Their Product: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health. Oxford University Press: New York. 2008.
• Michaels D. The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception. Oxford University Press: New York. 2020.
• Union of Concerned Scientists. How Georgia-Pacific Knowingly Published Fake Science on the Safety of Asbestos. October 10, 2017.
• Rohr JR. The Atrazine Saga and its Importance to the Future of Toxicology, Science, and Environmental and Human Health. Environ Toxicol Chem. 2021 Jun;40(6):1544-1558. doi: 10.1002/etc.5037. Epub 2021 May 17. PMID: 33999476.

• Cohn BA, Wolff MS, Cirillo PM, Sholtz RI. DDT and breast cancer in young women: new data on the significance of age at exposure. Environ Health Perspect. 2007 Oct;115(10):1406-14. doi: 10.1289/ehp.10260. PMID: 17938728; PMCID: PMC2022666.
• Goodson WH 3rd, Lowe L, Carpenter DO, et al. Assessing the carcinogenic potential of low-dose exposures to chemical mixtures in the environment: the challenge ahead. Carcinogenesis. 2015 Jun;36 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S254-96. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgv039. Erratum in: Carcinogenesis. 2016 Mar;37(3):344.
• Terry MB, Michels KB, Brody JG, et al. Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program (BCERP). Environmental exposures during windows of susceptibility for breast cancer: a framework for prevention research Breast Cancer Res. 2019 Aug 20;21(1):96. doi: 10.1186/s13058-019-1168-2.
• President’s Cancer Panel. Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What we can do now. Report on reducing environmental cancer risk 2008-2009 Annual Report. 2010.
• Smith MT, Guyton KZ, Gibbons CF, et al. Key Characteristics of Carcinogens as a Basis for Organizing Data on Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis Environ Health Perspect. 2016 Jun;124(6):713-21. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1509912.
• Whitehead TP, Metayer C, Wiemels JL, et al. Childhood Leukemia and Primary Prevention. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care. 2016 Oct;46(10):317-352. doi: 10.1016/j.cppeds.2016.08.004.

• Dodson RE, Boronow KE, Susmann H, et al. Consumer behavior and exposure to parabens, bisphenols, triclosan, dichlorophenols, and benzophenone-3: Results from a crowdsourced biomonitoring study. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2020 Sep;230:113624. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2020.113624.
• Dodson RE, Setzer RW, Spengler JD, et al. Influence of living in the same home on biomonitored levels of consumer product chemicals. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2022 Nov;32(6):885-891. doi: 10.1038/s41370-021-00368-8.
• Rodgers KM, Bennett D, Moran R, et al. Do flame retardant concentrations change in dust after older upholstered furniture is replaced? Environ Int. 2021 Aug;153:106513. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106513.

• Gehle KS, Crawford JL, Hatcher MT. Integrating environmental health into medical education. Am J Prev Med. 2011 Oct;41(4 Suppl 3):S296-301. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.06.007. PMID: 21961679.
• Agency for Toxics Substances and Disease Registry’s case study in Environmental Medicine: Taking an Exposure History
• Pediatric Environmental Health Tool kit (developed by University of California San Francisco. Endorsed by: American Academy of Pediatrics, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Clinics. Environmental health toolkits for pediatricians)

• Putting Breast Cancer Out of Work training, developed by the GreenBlue Alliance: https://www.chemhat.org/en/uswbga-program

• Cancer and Environment Network of Southwest Pennsylvania
  • Fact sheet on cancer risks from products in homes: https://censwpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CENSWPA_Cancer-risks-and-the-home-environment-Oct-2021.pdf
• Health Care without Harm’s Home Free resource to support finding health building products and materials: https://homefree.healthybuilding.net/

• Wray AJD, Minaker LM. Is cancer prevention influenced by the built environment? A multidisciplinary scoping review. Cancer. 2019 Oct 1;125(19):3299-3311. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32376. Epub 2019 Jul 9. PMID: 31287585.
• Koohsari MJ, Kakaya T, McCormack GR, et al. Built environment design and cancer prevention through the lens of inequality. Cities. 2021;119:103385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103385.

• Green chemistry for K-12 teaching: https://ecology.wa.gov/Waste-Toxics/Reducing-toxic-chemicals/Green-chemistry/Green-chemistry-for-K-12-classroom; https://www.dec.ny.gov/education/77750.html; https://greenchemistry.yale.edu/education/high-school/teachers
• Beyond Benign’s green chemistry resources for K-12 educators: https://www.beyondbenign.org/k12/

• Article about artificial turf and its potential connection to glioblastoma: https://greenchemistry.yale.edu/education/high-school/teachers
• Information on the EU restricting the use of synthetic turf: https://echa.europa.eu/hot-topics/granules-mulches-on-pitches-playgrounds
• A review of synthetic turf policies: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667010022001767

• Daniels RD, Bertke S, Dahm MM, et al. Exposure-response relationships for select cancer and non-cancer health outcomes in a cohort of U.S. firefighters from San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia (1950-2009). Occup Environ Med. 2015 Oct;72(10):699-706. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102671.
• Tsai RJ, Luckhaupt SE, Schumacher P, et al. Risk of cancer among firefighters in California, 1988-2007. Am J Ind Med. 2015 Jul;58(7):715-29. doi: 10.1002/ajim.22466.
• Horn GP, Fent KW, Kerber S, et al. Hierarchy of contamination control in the fire service: Review of exposure control options to reduce cancer risk. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2022 Sep;19(9):538-557. doi: 10.1080/15459624.2022.2100406.

• Information over perchloroethylene being classified as carcinogenic: https://monographs.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mono106-002.pdf
• Onasch J, Jacobs M, Biddle E. From Perchloroethylene dry cleaning to professional wet cleaning: making the health and business case for reducing toxics. J Environ Health. 2017;79(6): E1-E7.
• Alternatives assessment of seven common alternatives to perchloroethylene to help dry cleaners find alternatives: https://www.turi.org/TURI_Publications/TURI_Guides_to_Safer_Chemicals/Assessment_of_Alternatives_to_Perchloroethylene_for_the_Dry_Cleaning_Industry._2012
• Exploration of adopting policies that incentive the use of professional wet cleaning: https://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/press_releases/14-009pr.shtml; https://www.phila.gov/documents/dry-cleaning-regulations/; https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/phase-out-perchloroethylene-dry-cleaning-process/about

• Chen M, Chang CH, Tao L, et al. Residential Exposure to Pesticide During Childhood and Childhood Cancers: A Meta-Analysis. Pediatrics. 2015 Oct;136(4):719-29. doi: 10.1542/peds.2015-0006.
• Van Maele-Fabry G, Gamet-Payrastre L, Lison D. Household exposure to pesticides and risk of leukemia in children and adolescents: Updated systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2019 Jan;222(1):49-67. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2018.08.004.
• U.S. EPA’s information on Integrated Pest Management. https://www.epa.gov/ipm/introduction-integrated-pest-management
• Press release from IARC on glyphosate classification as “probably” carcinogenic https://www.iarc.who.int/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/
• Policies directing the use of IPM as substitutes for conventional pesticides:
  • Massachusetts – https://www.maasthma.org/toolkit/ipm
  • San Francisco – https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_environment/0-0-0-160; https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/d8bf14cf-690c-40c0-973c-39cde3f0558d?cache=1800
  • Santa Fe – https://www.beyondpesticides.org/assets/media/documents/lawn/activist/CITY%20OF%20SANTA%20FE.pdf

• Compendium of state chemicals policies: https://www.saferstates.org/bill-tracker/

• IARC publication on the carcinogenicity of air pollution: https://publications.iarc.fr/Book-And-Report-Series/Iarc-Monographs-On-The-Identification-Of-Carcinogenic-Hazards-To-Humans/Outdoor-Air-Pollution-2015
• Near traffic air pollution exposures is also a risk factor for childhood cancers:
  • Boothe VL, Boehmer TK, Wendel AM, et al. Residential traffic exposure and childhood leukemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Am J Prev Med. 2014 Apr;46(4):413-22. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2013.11.004.
  • Heck JE, Wu J, Lombardi C, et al. Childhood cancer and traffic-related air pollution exposure in pregnancy and early life. Environ Health Perspect. 2013 Nov-Dec;121(11-12):1385-91. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1306761.
  • Filippini T, Hatch EE, Rothman KJ, et al. Association between Outdoor Air Pollution and Childhood Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis. Environ Health Perspect. 2019 Apr;127(4):46002. doi: 10.1289/EHP4381.
• Studies suggesting that exposure to air pollution is associated with poorer cancer survival and treatment complications among childhood cancer patients:
  • Eckel SP, Cockburn M, Shu YH, et al. Air pollution affects lung cancer survival. Thorax. 2016 Oct;71(10):891-8. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207927.
  • McKeon TP, Anil Vachani, Penning TM, et al. Air pollution and lung cancer survival in Pennsylvania. Lung Cancer. 2022 Aug;170:65-73. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2022.06.004.
  • Ou JY, Hanson HA, Ramsay JM, Leiser CL, Zhang Y, VanDerslice JA, Pope CA 3rd, Kirchhoff AC. Fine Particulate Matter and Respiratory Healthcare Encounters among Survivors of Childhood Cancers. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Mar 26;16(6):1081. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16061081.
• Evidence-based interventions to support air pollution exposure reductions:
  • Turner MC, Andersen ZJ, Baccarelli A, et al. Outdoor air pollution and cancer: An overview of the current evidence and public health recommendations CA Cancer J Clin. 2020 Aug 25:10.3322/caac.21632. doi: 10.3322/caac.21632.

• Costas K, Knorr RS, Condon SK. A case-control study of childhood leukemia in Woburn, Massachusetts: the relationship between leukemia incidence and exposure to public drinking water. Sci Total Environ. 2002 Dec 2;300(1-3):23-35. doi: 10.1016/s0048-9697(02)00169-9.
• Dairkee SH, Moore DH, Luciani MG, et al. Reduction of daily-use parabens and phthalates reverses accumulation of cancer-associated phenotypes within disease-free breast tissue of study subjects. Chemosphere. 2023 May;322:138014. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138014.
• Dumitrascu MC, Mares C, Petca RC, et al. Carcinogenic effects of bisphenol A in breast and ovarian cancers. Oncol Lett. 2020 Dec;20(6):282. doi: 10.3892/ol.2020.12145.
• Siddique S, Zhang G, Coleman K, et al. Investigation of the migration of bisphenols from baby bottles and sippy cups. Curr Res Food Sci. 2021 Sep 3;4:619-626. doi: 10.1016/j.crfs.2021.08.006.
• Rochester JR, Bolden AL. Bisphenol S and F: A Systematic Review and Comparison of the Hormonal Activity of Bisphenol A Substitutes. Environ Health Perspect. 2015 Jul;123(7):643-50. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1408989.

• A novel report which demonstrated a direct correlation between the placement of toxic waste facilities and communities of poverty and/or color: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1310/ML13109A339.pdf
• An updated Toxic Wastes and Racism guide that explore progress made in environmental racism over the last 20 years: https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/toxic-wastes-and-race-at-twenty-1987-2007.pdf
• Legislation addressing environmental justice, climate change, clean energy, and legacy pollution: https://www.whitehouse.gov/environmentaljustice/justice40/
• Other landmark federal investments in environmental justice: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/17/fact-sheet-inflation-reduction-act-advances-environmental-justice/ & https://www.whitehouse.gov/american-rescue-plan/
• Informational video on environmental justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREtXUij6_c
• A recent study that examined environmental hazards associated with historically redlined neighborhoods in Detroit, Michigan:
  • Shkembi A, Smith LM, Neitzel RL. Linking environmental injustices in Detroit, MI to institutional racial segregation through historical federal redlining. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2022 Dec 21. doi: 10.1038/s41370-022-00512-y.
• A study that examines the cancer impacts of uranium mining in Navajo men:
  • Gilliland FD, Hunt WC, Pardilla M, Key CR. Uranium mining and lung cancer among Navajo men in New Mexico and Arizona, 1969 to 1993 J Occup Environ Med. 2000 Mar;42(3):278-83. doi: 10.1097/00043764-200003000-00008. PMID: 10738707.
• Information from the U.S. EPA about contamination from uranium mines and how it is being addressed: https://www.epa.gov/navajo-nation-uranium-cleanup/abandoned-mines-cleanup
• A study examining disparities in cancer risk based on income and race in Cancer Alley, Louisiana:
  • James W, Jia C, Kedia S. Uneven magnitude of disparities in cancer risks from air toxics. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2012 Dec 3;9(12):4365-85. doi: 10.3390/ijerph9124365.
• A ProPublica article that discusses Black residents in southeastern Louisiana and their disproportionate cancer rates from industrial air pollution: https://www.propublica.org/article/cancer-alley-louisiana-epa-environmental-racism
• A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tool used to explore data on environmental justice populations, including environmental exposures, community characteristics, and health burdens: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/Applications/ejdashboard/
• Climate and Environmental Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) – A geospatial mapping tool that identifies areas across the nation where communities are faced with environmental justice burdens: https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/en/#3/35.16/-103.07
  • Instructional video on using the CEJST mapping tool: https://player.vimeo.com/video/702214448?h=d67ec24458&app_id=122963
  • Methodology and detailed categories of burden for the CEJST mapping tool: https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/en/methodology#3/33.47/-97.5
• Pollution Prevention EJ Facility Mapping Tool:
  • Instructional video for the P2 EJ Facility Mapping Tool: https://www.youtube.com/embed/UyRUzFYvevU?feature=oembed
• A list of region-specific environmental justice activities: https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/environmental-justice-your-community
• A report on official state and federal environmental justice efforts: https://www.ncsl.org/environment-and-natural-resources/state-and-federal-environmental-justice-efforts#state

• A report on the 2019 Cancer and Environment Symposium in Southwestern Pennsylvania: https://www.sehn.org/sehn/2019/4/18/cancer-and-the-environment-a-symposium-report-by-ted-schettler
• A network based in Southwestern Pennsylvania focused on environmental cancer risk reduction: https://censwpa.org/
• A comprehensive action plan centered around primary prevention, science, community expertise, and policy initiatives to create systemic change to reduce toxic exposures and prevent breast cancer: https://www.bcpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Paths-to-Prevention-California-Breast-Cancer-Primary-Prevention-Plan_September-2020.pdf