We’re going to find out what they are not telling us

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Hi
John,
We’re no strangers to calling out disinformation tactics from corporations and industries whose products are linked to breast cancer.

Our independence and our truth-telling voice set us apart, and this is why we’ve been selected to be part of a research team that has been awarded a unique exploratory grant from the California Breast Cancer Research Program ([link removed]) to investigate industry influence over scientific information on breast cancer and the environment.

The grant supports a one-year inquiry into the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Industry Documents Library ([link removed]) to determine if there is important information in the tobacco, chemical, drug, food, and fossil fuel industry archives about the links between environmental exposures (including smoking, diet, chemicals and other pollutants and contaminants) and breast cancer that has yet to come to light.
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The UCSF Industry Documents Library was established in 2002 to house the millions of documents publicly disclosed in litigation. It now includes over 15 million emails, memos, papers, and other documents created by companies about their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, scientific research and political activities.

Evidence has shown links between breast cancer and petroleum combustion products, chemical exposures, and certain drugs. However, no research has been conducted into whether there are concealed documents in the Industry Documents Library that could shed light on companies’ internal strategies as they discovered evidence that their products are linked to increased breast cancer risk.

Our transdisciplinary research team includes Breast Cancer Action, UCSF clinicians, library archivists, and researchers with expertise in tobacco control, food industry studies, breast cancer epidemiology, environmental health sciences, communications and medical anthropology, as well as University of Nevada Reno researchers with expertise in public health and political science. UCSF research centers represented include the Environmental Research Translation in Health Center (EaRTH), the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The team will explore:
1. Any research or findings that shows that the tobacco, chemical, drug, food, and/or fossil fuel industries had knowledge about the links between breast cancer and their products, or environmental exposures stemming from those products, that were never released or not known to the public
2. Efforts by industry to influence public opinion in California and beyond on how environmental exposures are linked to breast cancer
3. Industry advertising and marketing practices that specifically targeted traditionally marginalized communities that exacerbated health disparities and undermined health equity related to breast cancer

This research has strong potential to uncover industry strategies and tactics that cast doubt on causal links between environmental exposures and breast cancer. And we look forward to sharing our findings with you, as soon as they are available.

We thank the California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP), the largest state-funded breast cancer research effort in the nation, for making this work possible. BCAction was also selected by CBCRP to be part of a second research project, in the central role of project convener. Stay tuned for that announcement next week.

In Solidarity,
Krystal Redman (KR/they/she)
Executive Director
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