Air Pollutants and Breast Cancer Risk: A Parallel Analysis of Five Large US Prospective Cohorts

Alexandra J White¹, Jaime E Hart¹, Sabah M Quraishi¹+13

• ¹Alexandra J. White and Dale P. Sandler are with the Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC. Jaime E. Hart and Francine Laden are with the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. At the time of this work, Sabah M. Quraishi was with the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA. Deborah B. Bookwalter is with Public Health and Epidemiology Practice, Westat, Rockville, MD. Marina R. Sweeney is with Social & Scientific Systems, a DLH Holdings Company, Durham, NC. Elizabeth W. Spalt and Joel D. Kaufman are with the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle. Michael S. Hendryx is with the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Indiana University School of Public Health, Bloomington. Veronica L. Irvin is with the College of Health, Oregon State University, Corvallis. Dorothy S. Lane is with the Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. Aladdin H. Shadyab is with the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla. Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson is with the Division of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus. Marian L. Neuhouser is with the Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle. Eric A. Whitsel is with the Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.