The emergency room this morning instead of visiting us, so we have plenty of folks from the Breast Cancer fund and other groups on hand to answer questions, but we are missing 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
They would keep finding bodies. They are still out there. There are bodies all over the place. They used to bury people in north beach. They would go up there and very bodies. There were removed from many of these cemeteries. There is a slogan that is anybody know . It is great to be alive. Beats the alternative. I was wondering if gary boulevard had always been a major thoroughfare. It used to have streetcars on it. They are thinking of bringing them back. The b line and the a line where there until the mid1950s. We are taking the street cars away, but bart will come out here and everything will be fine. Downtown, gary ave. When you get past it, it becomes gary boulevard. They wanted streets to be large, they should have vegetation and trees, they should be ornamental. Gary strieker was the main road from the 1850s. Gary street was the main road from the 18th of thes. It was planned as a major thoroughfare. It was a toll road originally. We make people pay to get on the road and we ma
That exposure, air filters, if so, what kind of air filters . Youre getting beyond our Technical Knowledge of our filtration, but you know, it might be somebody to consult with somebody with expertise in air filtration for indoor air of course, maybe replacing those filters more often, you know, some very basic things and again, im not an engineer, but wiping down surfaces with moistures rather than a rag captures that better, otherwise youre containing it better, thinking about some of the basic things you do in the home, i would consult someone who has experience in air filters. [inaudible]. [inaudible] and my husband tells me they mop the apparatus floors every day because its a diesel dust, im not sure if its a common practice in fire houses, i was told someone in the Fire Department had developed cancer and they thought it was partly due to the diesel dust so they mop down every day, i know they probably sweep it but i dont know if mopping down is what 9 does, i dont know if this
Thank you all for coming, i would like to really briefly introduce bonnie angle with the Breast Cancer fund, she is going to do a presentation for you on prevention, ways to preventolin ks of chemicals in Breast Cancer and ill let her talk about the rest, bonnie, thank you for coming. Alright. Thank you all so much for being here today. Im very excited to be able to give this presentation to you, unfortunately, i was expecting to have a copresenter who had a minor accident and visited the emergency room this morning instead of visiting us, so we have plenty of folks from the Breast Cancer fund and other groups on hand to answer questions, but we are missing 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 alrea
And also some policies, and then well kind of go beyond the home to talk about the kinds of exposures that might be not within our control in the house but elsewhere. And it looks like i have videos so that is good. So, the Breast Cancer fund is a National Organization that works to prevent Breast Cancer by eliminating the environmental exposures linked o the disease, mostly we talk about chemicals and radiation that are linked to Breast Cancer, we are a little different from your Breast Cancer organizations out there, we often associate Breast Cancer with pink ribbons and were about to see an onslaught of ribbons in our stores, we dont identify with pink because thats mostly associated with cures and treatments and were on prevention, were not affiliated with other Breast Cancer groups, there are all different Breast Cancer organize sashes that do their own Agenda Setting and we are an independent group that we have a board that helps us make decisions as an entity, were not focused o