Letter to the Editor: A Good First Start
This article was originally submitted as a Letter to the Editor of JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), in response to the article entitled “Risk-Based vs Annual Breast Cancer Screening: The WISDOM Randomized Clinical Trial”. Written by Dorothy Levine, MD and Alvin Rosenfeld, MD The WISDOM study demonstrates that using an innovative risk-based […]
New genetic tool offers more accurate breast cancer prediction for women of African ancestry
Written ByChandrika Abburi, PhD, UChicago Medicine Original article published online “At the Forefront, UChicago Medicine” here. Despite major advances in genetic testing for breast cancer risk prediction, death rates remain disproportionately high among women of African ancestry. This is often due to a combination of factors, including failure of existing genetic models to accurately predict […]