New research links risk of breast cancer to ethnicity
Not all breast cancers are created equal.
New genetics research by Olufunmilayo Olopade, a professor in the Department of Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, suggests that the type and severity of breast cancer are largely dependent on patients’ ethnicity. Olopade determined that genes belonging to African-American women often have mutations similar to those found in African women in Nigeria. These same ethnically linked mutations may be the reason that African-American women are at a higher risk for more aggressive breast cancer, suggesting a relationship...
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