Consumer Products

• Dodson RE, Boronow KE, Susmann H, et al. Consumer behavior and exposure to parabens, bisphenols, triclosan, dichlorophenols, and benzophenone-3: Results from a crowdsourced biomonitoring study. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2020 Sep;230:113624. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2020.113624. 

• Dodson RE, Setzer RW, Spengler JD, et al.  Influence of living in the same home on biomonitored levels of consumer product chemicals. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2022 Nov;32(6):885-891. doi: 10.1038/s41370-021-00368-8. 

• Rodgers KM, Bennett D, Moran R, et al. Do flame retardant concentrations change in dust after older upholstered furniture is replaced? Environ Int. 2021 Aug;153:106513. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106513. 

Health Professional Environmental Exposure Histories

• Gehle KS, Crawford JL, Hatcher MT. Integrating environmental health into medical education. Am J Prev Med. 2011 Oct;41(4 Suppl 3):S296-301. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.06.007. PMID: 21961679.

• Agency for Toxics Substances and Disease Registry’s case study in Environmental Medicine: Taking an Exposure History

• Pediatric Environmental Health Tool kit (developed by University of California San Francisco. Endorsed by: American Academy of Pediatrics, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Clinics. Environmental health toolkits for pediatricians) 

Worker Training Materials

• Putting Breast Cancer Out of Work training, developed by the GreenBlue Alliance: https://www.chemhat.org/en/uswbga-program

Healthy Building Products 

• Cancer and Environment Network of Southwest Pennsylvania 

  • Fact sheet on cancer risks from products in homes: https://censwpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CENSWPA_Cancer-risks-and-the-home-environment-Oct-2021.pdf 

• Health Care without Harm’s Home Free resource to support finding health building products and materials: https://homefree.healthybuilding.net/

Built environment design and city planning 

• Wray AJD, Minaker LM. Is cancer prevention influenced by the built environment? A multidisciplinary scoping review. Cancer. 2019 Oct 1;125(19):3299-3311. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32376. Epub 2019 Jul 9. PMID: 31287585.

• Koohsari MJ, Kakaya T, McCormack GR, et al. Built environment design and cancer prevention through the lens of inequality. Cities. 2021;119:103385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103385.

Green chemistry education resources

• Green chemistry for K-12 teaching: https://ecology.wa.gov/Waste-Toxics/Reducing-toxic-chemicals/Green-chemistry/Green-chemistry-for-K-12-classroom; https://www.dec.ny.gov/education/77750.html; & https://greenchemistry.yale.edu/education/high-school/teachers 

• Beyond Benign’s green chemistry resources for K-12 educators: https://www.beyondbenign.org/k12/  

Artificial turf

• Article about artificial turf and its potential connection to glioblastoma: https://greenchemistry.yale.edu/education/high-school/teachers 

• Information on the EU restricting the use of synthetic turf: https://echa.europa.eu/hot-topics/granules-mulches-on-pitches-playgrounds 

• A review of synthetic turf policies: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667010022001767

 Firefighters:

• Daniels RD, Bertke S, Dahm MM, et al. Exposure-response relationships for select cancer and non-cancer health outcomes in a cohort of U.S. firefighters from San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia (1950-2009). Occup Environ Med. 2015 Oct;72(10):699-706. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102671. 

• Tsai RJ, Luckhaupt SE, Schumacher P, et al. Risk of cancer among firefighters in California, 1988-2007. Am J Ind Med. 2015 Jul;58(7):715-29. doi: 10.1002/ajim.22466. 

• Horn GP, Fent KW, Kerber S, et al. Hierarchy of contamination control in the fire service: Review of exposure control options to reduce cancer risk. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2022 Sep;19(9):538-557. doi: 10.1080/15459624.2022.2100406. 

Professional wet cleaning as an alternative to dry cleaning:

• Information over perchloroethylene being classified as carcinogenic: https://monographs.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/mono106-002.pdf 

• Onasch J, Jacobs M, Biddle E. From Perchloroethylene dry cleaning to professional wet cleaning: making the health and business case for reducing toxics. J Environ Health. 2017;79(6): E1-E7. 

• Alternatives assessment of seven common alternatives to perchloroethylene to help dry cleaners find alternatives: https://www.turi.org/TURI_Publications/TURI_Guides_to_Safer_Chemicals/Assessment_of_Alternatives_to_Perchloroethylene_for_the_Dry_Cleaning_Industry._2012 

• Exploration of adopting policies that incentive the use of professional wet cleaning:  https://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/press_releases/14-009pr.shtml; https://www.phila.gov/documents/dry-cleaning-regulations/; & https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/phase-out-perchloroethylene-dry-cleaning-process/about 

Banning pesticides in public spaces and replacing with Integrated Pest Management Practices 

• Chen M, Chang CH, Tao L, et al. Residential Exposure to Pesticide During Childhood and Childhood Cancers: A Meta-Analysis. Pediatrics. 2015 Oct;136(4):719-29. doi: 10.1542/peds.2015-0006. 

• Van Maele-Fabry G, Gamet-Payrastre L, Lison D. Household exposure to pesticides and risk of leukemia in children and adolescents: Updated systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2019 Jan;222(1):49-67. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2018.08.004. 

• U.S. EPA’s information on Integrated Pest Management .https://www.epa.gov/ipm/introduction-integrated-pest-management 

• Press release from IARC on glyphosate classification as “probably” carcinogenic https://www.iarc.who.int/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-glyphosate/ 

• Policies directing the use of IPM as substitutes for conventional pesticides:

  • Massachusetts – https://www.maasthma.org/toolkit/ipm

  • San Francisco – https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_environment/0-0-0-160; https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/d8bf14cf-690c-40c0-973c-39cde3f0558d?cache=1800; 

  • Santa Fe – https://www.beyondpesticides.org/assets/media/documents/lawn/activist/CITY%20OF%20SANTA%20FE.pdf 

State-level policies restricting chemicals in consumer products

• Compendium of state chemicals policies: https://www.saferstates.org/bill-tracker/ 

Air pollution policies

• IARC publication on the carcinogenicity of air pollution: https://publications.iarc.fr/Book-And-Report-Series/Iarc-Monographs-On-The-Identification-Of-Carcinogenic-Hazards-To-Humans/Outdoor-Air-Pollution-2015 

• Near traffic air pollution exposures is also a risk factor for childhood cancers: 

  • Boothe VL, Boehmer TK, Wendel AM, et al. Residential traffic exposure and childhood leukemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Am J Prev Med. 2014 Apr;46(4):413-22. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2013.11.004. 

  • Heck JE, Wu J, Lombardi C, et al. Childhood cancer and traffic-related air pollution exposure in pregnancy and early life. Environ Health Perspect. 2013 Nov-Dec;121(11-12):1385-91. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1306761. 

  • Filippini T, Hatch EE, Rothman KJ, et al. Association between Outdoor Air Pollution and Childhood Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis. Environ Health Perspect. 2019 Apr;127(4):46002. doi: 10.1289/EHP4381. 

• Studies suggesting that exposure to air pollution is associated with poorer cancer survival and treatment complications among childhood cancer patients:

  • Eckel SP, Cockburn M, Shu YH, et al. Air pollution affects lung cancer survival. Thorax. 2016 Oct;71(10):891-8. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-207927. 

  • McKeon TP, Anil Vachani, Penning TM, et al. Air pollution and lung cancer survival in Pennsylvania. Lung Cancer. 2022 Aug;170:65-73. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2022.06.004. 

  • Ou JY, Hanson HA, Ramsay JM, Leiser CL, Zhang Y, VanDerslice JA, Pope CA 3rd, Kirchhoff AC. Fine Particulate Matter and Respiratory Healthcare Encounters among Survivors of Childhood Cancers. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Mar 26;16(6):1081. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16061081. 

• Evidence-based interventions to support air pollution exposure reductions:

  • Turner MC, Andersen ZJ, Baccarelli A, et al. Outdoor air pollution and cancer: An overview of the current evidence and public health recommendations. CA Cancer J Clin. 2020 Aug 25:10.3322/caac.21632. doi: 10.3322/caac.21632. 

Other literature cited (in alphabetical order by author):

• Costas K, Knorr RS, Condon SK. A case-control study of childhood leukemia in Woburn, Massachusetts: the relationship between leukemia incidence and exposure to public drinking water. Sci Total Environ. 2002 Dec 2;300(1-3):23-35. doi: 10.1016/s0048-9697(02)00169-9. 

• Dairkee SH, Moore DH, Luciani MG, et al. Reduction of daily-use parabens and phthalates reverses accumulation of cancer-associated phenotypes within disease-free breast tissue of study subjects. Chemosphere. 2023 May;322:138014. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138014. 

• Dumitrascu MC, Mares C, Petca RC, et al. Carcinogenic effects of bisphenol A in breast and ovarian cancers. Oncol Lett. 2020 Dec;20(6):282. doi: 10.3892/ol.2020.12145. 

• Siddique S, Zhang G, Coleman K, et al. Investigation of the migration of bisphenols from baby bottles and sippy cups. Curr Res Food Sci. 2021 Sep 3;4:619-626. doi: 10.1016/j.crfs.2021.08.006. 

Rochester JR, Bolden AL. Bisphenol S and F: A Systematic Review and Comparison of the Hormonal Activity of Bisphenol A Substitutes. Environ Health Perspect. 2015 Jul;123(7):643-50. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1408989.