By Karen Swift My story begins in Sandwich, Massachusetts, where I grew up watching my mother, Nancy Swift, courageously battle breast cancer. I was just 15 years old when she was diagnosed. Spending my high school years watching my mother fight for her life was not how I imagined my teenage years would unfold. My … Read more
We are grateful to Cardi’s Furniture & Mattresses for highlighting MBCC during a recent segment on The Rhode Home. The feature included MBCC representative Jillian Stuart alongside Ron and Pete Cardi, who discussed the importance of supporting MBCC’s mission breast cancer prevention, environmental health advocacy, and community awareness efforts across Massachusetts. One meaningful way to … Read more
Dr. Linda Malkas is the Associate Chair and a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, where she co-founded and continues to co-lead the Molecular Oncology Program since 2011. Previously a Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, she co-founded and … Read more
Dr. Alexandra White is an environmental epidemiologist whose research focuses on identifying modifiable environmental exposures linked to cancer risk, particularly breast cancer. Her work examines how pollutants like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and metals contribute to breast carcinogenesis, leveraging large-scale studies such as the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project and the Sister Study. She … Read more
Dr. James-Todd is an environmental reproductive epidemiologist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Director of the Environmental Reproductive Justice Lab. Her work focuses on the importance of pregnancy as a sensitive window of consumer product and environmental chemical exposures. She has been awarded the Estrellita and Yosuf Karsh Visiting Professorship in … Read more
