February 2011 Newsletter

Army of Women

BEAM Study – Researchers are looking for women in the Baltimore or Chicago area who have had a normal mammogram in the last 3 months.  Researchers are hoping to find out why some women with no known risk factors get cancer, while other women with many of the risk factors never get it.

Pregnancy and Breast Cancer Risk Study – Researchers are looking for women in the Boston area who have not had breast cancer.  They are looking at the role early pregnancy (before age 25) and multiple pregnancies have in reducing a woman’s long-term risk of developing breast cancer.

Shift Work and Breast Cancer Risk Study – Researchers are looking for women in the Indianapolis area who have not had breast cancer and either have worked a day shift or night shift for the past five years.  They are looking at the effect working the night shift has on women’s risk for breast cancer.