Collected by: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH/NIEHS)

Archived since: Sep, 2022

Description:

The Sister Study is conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health, of the US Department of Health and Human Services. From 2003 to 2009, more than 50,000 women across the US and Puerto Rico, who were between ages 35–74 and whose sister had breast cancer, joined this landmark research effort to find causes of breast cancer.

Subject:   Government - US Federal,  Science & Health,  Society & Culture