Girlfriends Health Guide for Women of Color is excited to announce that as of April 1, 2008, it will be teaming up with the Sister Study, a study done by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).  The Sister Study is aimed at women in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, ages 35 to 74, who have sisters (living or deceased) with breast cancer.

Through this new relationship, Girlfriends and Sister Study hopes to recruit women from every walk of life to join the study and ultimately find a cure for breast cancer.  Girlfriends Health Guide for Women of Color will use its strong web presence as well as their magazine to reach women of different backgrounds, occupations, ages and ethinic groups.

“We appreciate the support from the Girlfriends Health Guide for Women of Color and look forward to working with them to spread the word about this important research,” said Dale Sandler, Ph.D., chief of the Epidemiology Branch at NIEHS and principal investigator of the Sister Study.  “If you’re a woman of color whose sister had breast cancer, your participation in the Sister Study is especially important,” continued Dr. Sandler.  “We want to learn more about how to protect future generations-daughters and granddaughters-from this devastating disease.”  The women that are participants in the study must have never been diagnosed with breast cancer themselves.  To learn more about the Sister Study, visit the website www.sisterstudy.org, or visit www.girlfriendshealthguide.com.  For Spanish, visit www.estudioehermannas.org.

A toll free number is also available 1-877-4SISTER (877-474-7837).

                                                                                          -Robyn Hamilton