Cancer and the Environment Symposium

This event was part of a year-long celebration of Duke Medicine's 75th Anniversary.

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Cancer and the Environment Conference at Duke

Environmental Sentinels for Human Disease

A Partnership Between the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences

This one-and-a-half day conference featured nationally renowned researchers and policymakers highlighting groundbreaking research and significant discoveries in eco and environmental toxicology, environmental health, carcinogenesis, epigenetics and genomics. Researchers presented findings of environmental damage affecting species; the human disease emanating from environmental toxins; as well as the molecular biology surrounding the mechanism of disease, particularly cancer.

The focus of this collaboration is to unravel the interplay between genes and the environment. Researchers from each institution have begun to share their knowledge as they examine how environmental factors interact with genes in determining when, or if, a particular disease develops.