Bridging the Data Gap in Breast Cancer Risk Assessment to Enable Widespread Clinical Implementation across the Multiethnic Landscape of the US

Breast cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer death among women and is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. Breast cancer risk assessment has been clinically available for nearly 30 years yet is under-utilized in practice for multiple reasons. Incorporation of polygenic risk as we...

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Published inJournal of cancer treatment & diagnosis Vol. 2; no. 4; p. 1
Main Authors Spaeth, Erika, Starlard-Davenport, Athena, Allman, Richard
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.01.2018
Subjects
Prevention
Screening
Ethnicity
Race
General population
Polygenic risk
Breast cancer risk assessment
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Summary:Breast cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer death among women and is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. Breast cancer risk assessment has been clinically available for nearly 30 years yet is under-utilized in practice for multiple reasons. Incorporation of polygenic risk as well as breast density measurements, promise to increase the accuracy of risk assessment. With that comes the hope that both prevention and screening become more personalized and thus more effective. Incidence rates have been static over the past 15 years and have even increased slightly in African American and Asian/Pacific Islander populations despite the robust data on breast cancer risk reduction measures that exist. Current challenges in reducing breast cancer incidence begin with robust data curation that allows for appropriate risk stratification across our multiethnic population and conclude with the implementation of prevention strategies within our fractured healthcare system.
ISSN:2578-2967
DOI:10.29245/2578-2967/2018/4.1137