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In fiscal year 2017, the National Cancer Institute devoted more than a half billion dollars to breast cancer research. Since 2012, the total investment has been more than $3 billion. Despite this significant investment, breast cancer still has no known immediate causes as it generally develops over the life course. Therefore, research is unable to provide the public any sort of magic bullet, or conclusive link between certain environmental exposures and the development of breast cancer later in life. What research is only able to report are likelihoods-possible links-things people might want to consider avoiding or doing in their everyday lives to reduce their future risks of developing breast cancer. This abundance of rigorously performed, albeit causally inconclusive, research focused on "plausible" links poses a challenge for health communicators who are tasked with seeking to find ways to translate this science into advice that people can act upon today. However, if society must wait for the science to provide 100% conclusive evidence before anyone ever takes action, how many lives could have been saved in the interim? Therefore, we advocate a two-pronged approach to translatin

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Author

Perrault, Evan K.; Hildenbrand, Grace M.; Nyaga, Robert G.

Publisher

Frontiers Media SA; Frontiers Media S.A.; Lausanne: Frontiers Media S.A., 2011- (ISSN 2234-943X)

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)