Recovery Act Funds Advances in Breast Cancer Detection, Treatment, and Prevention || NCI Cancer Bulletin for November 1, 2011 - National Cancer Institute

 

Recovery Act Funds Advances in Breast Cancer Detection, Treatment, and Prevention

The NCI Recovery Act website features a new article about how Recovery Act funding is enabling researchers to address the public health burden of breast cancer. The article highlights three Recovery Act-funded projects, each addressing a different challenge associated with the disease.

The article discusses researchers who are working to improve breast cancer treatment and survival while also avoiding the use of aggressive surgery or chemotherapy when less-intensive treatment would provide equal benefit to the patient. It also covers investigators focused on breast cancer prevention and understanding how behavioral and neighborhood factors help identify specific populations that may require more interventions, and how to tailor those interventions strategically.

Through Recovery Act-funded research, scientists are making strides in understanding the complexities of breast cancer, how breast cancer affects different people, and how to address these variables.
NCI Cancer Bulletin for November 1, 2011 - National Cancer Institute