Exposures among women firefighters in particular, and so we have some members of that team talking about that here, sharl patton is back there, give a wave, and did rachel step out already . And rachel thought she was going to give a wave but she had to step out to go to another meeting, from the Breast Cancer fund, we have my two science leaders, [inaudible] and janet gray, so science questions galor, they can handle them all, policy questions, well have to deflect some of those to nancy for another time, so what im going to present today is what we call our healthy home and Healthy World tours, ill talk a little bit about who the Breast Cancer fund is and then were going to walk through kind of the rooms in your home talking about tips for avoiding exposures that are linked to Breast Cancer and i will talk a little bit about the different chemicals, where theyre found, things you can do to avoid them and also some policies, and then well kind of go beyond the home to talk about the k
But the first one goes on the scheme of plastic, so plastic wrap, plastic bags, you know, its great to say we should all use glass but we know whats used out there is plastic, and its reusable, you can come up with all these ways to avoid it but theres plastic everywhere and its accessible and cheap, so plastic wrap gets used a lot, there arent that many alternatives that can do what plastic wrap does, i dont use a lot of it and its harder to store things longterm and same question applies for the freezer, its easier to put things in a freezer bag. So, a little tip for that is i do admit to using plastic bags, i reuse them and if something is not i dont use them for liquids and if something isnt somehow already kind of like a solid or whatever, parchment paper around that and then use the plastic just as the thing that keeps it from leakproof or if im taking soup to work, i have my soup in a glass jar but i will throw it in plastic because i dont want it all over my backpack and theres
Our policy geru unfortunately, i dont know how much this audience is familiar with it but weve also been meeting and talking about doing a study of exposures among women firefighters in particular, and so we have some members of that team talking about that here, sharl patton is back there, give a wave, and did rachel step out already . And rachel thought she was going to give a wave but she had to step out to go to another meeting, from the Breast Cancer fund, we have my two science leaders, [inaudible] and janet gray, so science questions galor, they can handle them all, policy questions, well have to deflect some of those to nancy for another time, so what im going to present today is what we call our healthy home and Healthy World tours, ill talk a little bit about who the Breast Cancer fund is and then were going to walk through kind of the rooms in your home talking about tips for avoiding exposures that are linked to Breast Cancer and i will talk a little bit about the different
Scheme of plastic, so plastic wrap, plastic bags, you know, its great to say we should all use glass but we know whats used out there is plastic, and its reusable, you can come up with all these ways to avoid it but theres plastic everywhere and its accessible and cheap, so plastic wrap gets used a lot, there arent that many alternatives that can do what plastic wrap does, i dont use a lot of it and its harder to store things longterm and same question applies for the freezer, its easier to put things in a freezer bag. So, a little tip for that is i do admit to using plastic bags, i reuse them and if something is not i dont use them for liquids and if something isnt somehow already kind of like a solid or whatever, parchment paper around that and then use the plastic just as the thing that keeps it from leakproof or if im taking soup to work, i have my soup in a glass jar but i will throw it in plastic because i dont want it all over my backpack and theres also more stainless steel opt
Thats an excellent question and i thought somebody would probably ask that. So, the United States Preventative Services task force in 2009 came out with a proposal to revise guidelines saying that perhaps women aged 40 to 50, theres no cost benefit really for that age group in terms of having mammogram of average risk, so recommended that women start mammography at age ao where the benefits really out weigh the risk, you dont have 40 years left in your life span at that point perhaps, you have 30, youre at a less vulnerable stage of life so there are a lot more benefits for life, your Breast Cancer risks are higher, so you know, the age 40 to 50, theres still a lot of debate about that and women need to discuss this with their own health care providers, but recent research has found that women who are at high risk of Breast Cancer because of braque of mutation who then screening at earlier and earlier ages may be particularly vulnerable to radiation, so for them, alternatives to radiat