The PA Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factor Project encourages you to seek additional information regarding breast cancer and potential environmental risks. Environmental risk as it relates to breast cancer is an emerging science. We have included this aid prior to the list of related links to assist with your personal evaluation of the sites that you visit.

10 Things to Know about Evaluating Medical Resources on the Web

A resource document from The National Cancer Institute's cancerTrials™ Web Site
date posted on NCI site 7/20/99

The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading. Answering these questions when you visit a new site will help you evaluate the information you find. The information should be quick and easy to find. For a more detailed explanation of each question, visit The National Cancer Institute's cancerTrials™ Web site.

1. Who runs this site?
2. What is the purpose of the site?
3. Where does the information come from?
4. What is the basis of the information?
5. How is the information selected?
6. How current is the information?
7. How does the site choose links to other sites?
8. Who pays for the site?
9. What information about you does the site collect, and why?
10. How does the site manage interactions with visitors?

Links Categories

Pestidices and the Environment

Diet & Recipes

Cancer Information

Program Planning & Educational Considerations

Internet Health Search Sites

Pestidices and the Environment

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov

EPA's iinteractive tour of pesticides and hazardous compounds in the house:
http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/kids/hometour/tour.htm

The EXtension TOXicology NETwork (EXTOXNET)
http://ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet

Government Agencies
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/osh/govtagcy.htm

National Ag Safety Database (PA information)
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nasd/menus/statepa.html

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
http://niehs.nih.gov

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npg.html

PA Agromedicine Program
http://www.hmc.psu.edu/family/agromed/agromed.htm

PA Integrated Pest Management Program
http://paipm.cas.psu.edu

PA Pesticide Urban Initiative
http://urbanpested.cas.psu.edu

Toxic Release Inventory
http://www.rtk.net/triinputarea.html

Women’s Health and the Environment: Federal Inventory of Activities
http://www.4woman.gov/nwhic/env

World Resources Institute
http://wri.org/health

Audubon Society
www.audubon.org

Chesapeake Bay Foundation
www.cbf.org

Department of Pesticide Regulation @ Clemson
http://dpr.clemson.dpr

Environmental Working Group
http://www.ewg.org

Environmental Working Group/Food News
http://foodnews.org

Integrated Pest Management in Schools - National Web Site
http://ifas.ufl.edu/~schoolipm/index.html

Mothers and Others
http://www.mothers.org

National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
http://www.ncamp.org

National Integrated Pest Management Network
http://www.reeusda/gov/agsys/nipmn

Pest Management at the Crossroads
http://www.pmac.net

Sierra Club
http://www.sierraclub.org

US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
http://chpm-www.apgea.army.mil/ento/bulletin.htm

Women’s Environment and Development Organization
http://www.wedo.org

Water Resources Education Network
http://pa.lwv.org/wren/index.html

Beyond Pesticides
http://www.beyondpesticides.org

American Dietetic Association
http://www.eatright.org

Federal Consumer Information Center
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov

Food and Nutrition Information Center
http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic

United States Department of Agriculture
www.usda.gov/cnpp

United States Soy Foods Directory
http://www.soyfoods.com

TalkSoy
http://www.talksoy.com

Cancer Information

Ask NOAH about Cancer
http://www.noah.cuny.edu/cancer/cancer.html

American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org

Cancer Information Service
http://cis.nci.nih.gov/contact/cancer.html

Cornell Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors in New York State
http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/bcerf/

University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
http://www.oncolink.com

American Institute for Cancer Research
http://www.aicr.org

Breast Cancer Info.Com (Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation)
http://www.breastcancerinfo.com

C. Everett Koop Health Site
http://www.drkoop.com

Fight Breast Cancer
http://www.fight-breastcancer.com

Fox Chase Cancer Center
http://www.fccc.edu

Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention
http://www.yourcancerrisk.harvard.edu

Johns Hopkins
http://www.intelihealth..com

Voice of Women Breast Cancer Articles
http://voiceofwomen.com/articles/breastcancer.html

Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health
http://porh.cas.psu.edu.

Program Planning & Educational Considerations

National Cancer Institute Publications

1) Cancer Rates and Risks
2) Clear & Simple: Developing Effective Print Materials for Low Literate Readers
3) Making Health Communications Work
4) Theory at a Glance
http://rex.nci.nih.gov/NCI_Pub_Interface/Pub_Patient8.html

Community Tool Box
http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu

Health Communications
http://www.emerson.edu/acadepts/CS/healthcom/Resources/

A Primer on Health Risk Communication Principles and Practices
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HEC/primer.html

Food and Drug Administration Publications
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/lowlit/7lowlit.html

Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania
http://www.hcwp.org/app-acs.htm

Media Policy Clearinghouse
http://www.mediascope.org/mediascope/clearing.htm

Media Relations
http://www.apha.org/science/innovations/pubs/mediarel.html

Healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.org

Internet Discovery Tools
http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/tools.html

Medscape
http://www.medscape.com

Your Health is Our Business
http://www.siu.edu/departments/bushea/