Detection of breast Cancer before appearance of cancer cells possible

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It’s now possible to test for breast cancers in young, high-risk African-American women before cancer cells appear, according to study results presented Monday at the Fourth American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities (SCHD).

“What’s new about our study is that we can find activation of some of the things that are bad in triple-negative breast cancer in precancerous cells,” investigator Victoria L. Seewaldt, MD, told *Medscape Medical News*. She is professor of medicine and co-director of the breast and ovarian cancer program at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

“We need to do prospective testing,” she said, “but we think we have a promising test that might be able to help us sort out precancers that are at high risk of progressing.”

Ref and Read more: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750070?sssdmh=dm1.720000&src=nldne

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