“Rate of breast cancer is going up and now younger woman are getting affected by the disease. Experts need to investigate the role of pollution in cancer incidence as most studies on environmental risk factors and breast cancer are conducted in average risk cohorts and are not sufficiently powered to examine interactions across the risk spectrum,” she said. The second day of the conference organized by Amity University, Lucknow, in collaboration with National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), USA, saw highly knowledgeable speakers across the world who also presented their research papers. Prof Linda Birnbaum, director, NIEHS and National Toxicology Program, North Carolina, Professor Tom Wie from Columbia University, Prof Wolfgang Schareck, Rostock University (Germany), Prof Mone Zaidi, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, and Prof Peter Langer from Germany, were conferred upon an honorary doctorate. The luminaries were honoured by Dr Ashok K Chauhan, founder-president, Ritnand Balved Education Foundation and Dr Aseem Chauhan, chairman, Amity University, Lucknow.

Source: Hindustan Times December 01, 2017 09:33 UTC