Research Highlights

Since the advent of screening mammograms in the late 20th century, breast cancer screening recommendations have remained largely unchanged and rely on age as the main criterion to guide screening. While there are new breast cancer risk prediction tools, ...

In the US, one in 196 women is diagnosed with breast cancer under the age of 40 years. There are currently four main molecular subtypes of invasive breast cancer, or groupings of breast cancers that share characteristics, each of which affects individuals differently. Prior studies have shown that after surgery for...

While access to healthcare information is key to keeping communities healthy, there are many barriers preventing people—particularly from underserved communities—from fully engaging with important health topics....

Dr. Eunji Choi, assistant professor of population health sciences, has received a K01 award from the National Institute on Aging for her research on aging-related clinical decline in lung cancer survivors. The K01...

Evidence suggests that plasma C-peptide, a measure of endogenous insulin production, may have mitotic effects on normal and neoplastic breast epithelial cells. It may also stimulate the proliferation of human...