Community Breast Cancer Mapping in Huntington, Long Island

2011 ◽  
pp. 97-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Carlin
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Long Island ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Community Group ◽  
Community Mapping ◽  
Private Corporations

The Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition (HBCAC) recently completed a survey of town residents regarding breast cancer. This chapter reviews how this community group relied upon a network of volunteers and community goodwill to survey local breast cancer patterns and the issues HBCAC confronted in mapping those results. The chapter explains how community-mapping projects differ from mapping projects directed by scientists, private corporations and government agencies. Community organizations often approach maps with different perspectives and goals than these traditional mapping agencies. This chapter emphasizes the significance of the community perspective for understanding and addressing breast cancer. HBCAC is using ESRI’s ArcView software to map breast cancer patterns and to overlay various environmental themes, such as local toxic sites, to better understand local breast cancer patterns.

scholarly journals Shift Work, Light at Night, and Breast Cancer on Long Island, New York

2006 ◽  
Vol 164 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin S. O'Leary ◽  
Elinor R. Schoenfeld ◽  
Richard G. Stevens ◽  
Geoffrey C. Kabat ◽  
Kevin Henderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
New York ◽  
Shift Work ◽  
Long Island ◽  
Light At Night

scholarly journals IGF1 CA repeat polymorphisms, lifestyle factors and breast cancer risk in the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 758-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca J. Cleveland ◽  
Marilie D. Gammon ◽  
Sharon N. Edmiston ◽  
Susan L. Teitelbaum ◽  
Julie A. Britton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Breast Cancer Risk ◽  
Cancer Risk ◽  
Long Island ◽  
Lifestyle Factors ◽  
Ca Repeat ◽  
Cancer Study ◽  
Breast Cancer Study

The Age of Commodity: Water Privatization in Southern Africa

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-207
Author(s):  
Susan Spronk
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Water Privatization ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Water Wars ◽  
Private Corporations ◽  
And Control

The Age of Commodity: Water Privatization in Southern Africa, David A. McDonald and Greg Ruiters, eds., London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan Press, 2005, pp. xv, 303.This collection of essays is a cutting-edge study of neoliberal public service reform in Southern Africa. While most studies of water privatization, such as Karen Bakker's An Uncooperative Commodity: Privatizing Water in England and Wales (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) and Vandana Shiva's Water Wars (Cambridge: South End Press, 2002), have concentrated on the transfer of ownership and control from the state to private corporations, privatization is more broadly defined to include the transfer of ownership and/or decision-making responsibility to NGOs and community organizations. The editors rightly emphasize, moreover, that privatization is not the only disturbing trend in public service reform. Corporatization—the creation of publicly owned and operated companies that run like private businesses—threatens to entrench the discriminatory aspects of infrastructure distribution that characterized colonialism and apartheid in the region in the previous era.

scholarly journals Dietary Flavonoid Intake and Breast Cancer Survival among Women on Long Island

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 2285-2292 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. N. Fink ◽  
S. E. Steck ◽  
M. S. Wolff ◽  
J. A. Britton ◽  
G. C. Kabat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Survival ◽  
Long Island ◽  
Breast Cancer Survival ◽  
Flavonoid Intake ◽  
Dietary Flavonoid

scholarly journals Post-diagnosis physical activity and survival after breast cancer diagnosis: the Long Island Breast Cancer Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 145 (3) ◽  
pp. 735-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick T. Bradshaw ◽  
Joseph G. Ibrahim ◽  
Nikhil Khankari ◽  
Rebecca J. Cleveland ◽  
Page E. Abrahamson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Cancer Diagnosis ◽  
Long Island ◽  
Breast Cancer Diagnosis ◽  
Cancer Study ◽  
Breast Cancer Study

‘Breast Cancer on Long Island’: The Emergence of a New Object Through Mapping Practices

BioSocieties ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Diedrich ◽  
Emily Boyce
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Long Island

Electric Blanket Use and Breast Cancer on Long Island

Epidemiology ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 514-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey C. Kabat ◽  
Erin S. O’Leary ◽  
Elinor Randi Schoenfeld ◽  
Judith M. Greene ◽  
Roger Grimson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Long Island

Genetic variation of TP53, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-related exposures, and breast cancer risk among women on Long Island, New York

2007 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mia M. Gaudet ◽  
Marilie D. Gammon ◽  
Jeannette T. Bensen ◽  
Sharon K. Sagiv ◽  
Sumitra Shantakumar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
New York ◽  
Genetic Variation ◽  
Breast Cancer Risk ◽  
Cancer Risk ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbon ◽  
Long Island ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic
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