Melissa Troester, PhD, MPH, received $ 150,000 to support a research project with the goal of identifying biomarkers that will help doctors understand who is
at highest risk for breast cancer recurrence.
«The
higher risk of tumor
recurrence that we observed among African American women was reduced when controlling
for those factors, suggesting that these genomic differences contribute,
at least partly, to the known racial disparity in the survival of African American and Caucasian
breast cancer patients.»