Home About 1 million women have breast cancer right now . But, breast cancer usually grows for five to eight years before it becomes large enough to be discovered by current detection methods. Our vision is a simple and reliable lab test that will detect breast cancer in the body before a tumor has formed. Then, doctors can treat a few cells, rather than millions.
Breast cancer can become a condition women can live with rather than a life-threatening one.
Young women for whom screening mammography is not recommended. African American women who die at higher rates from breast cancer due in part to late diagnosis. Breast cancer survivors, who want to treat any recurrence at the earliest possible moment. The one million women who have breast cancer growing in their bodies right now and must wait for the cancer to form a mass to become discernable. A two-year seed grant from Friends helped launch my research, Genetic Polymorphisms in Drug Metabolic Enzymes as Risk Factors for p53 Gene Mutations.