Towards an optimal breast cancer screening strategy
Each year, over 22,000 Canadian women are diagnosed with breast cancer, a disease that will claim the lives of 5,000 of them. The routine screening program currently in place is more accessible to women over the age of 50. However, one in five women diagnosed with breast cancer are under the age of 50.
The PERSPECTIVE project (PErsonalised Risk Stratification for Prevention and Early deteCTIon of breast cancer) brings together more than 25 co-researchers, biostatisticians and clinicians from Québec, Ontario, the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany. It aims to develop a decision-making support tool that will help extend the benefits of the current screening program to those women most at risk for breast cancer.
Through involvement with the largest international consortium on the study of breast cancer, the project will help broaden existing knowledge in order to provide better risk stratification tools, fine tune intervention strategies and offer the population more effective tools.
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Co-applicants, End-users and Collaborators:
| Irene | Andrulis |
Ontario Cancer Genetics Network |
| Antonis | Antoniou |
Cancer Research UK |
| Gary | Bader |
Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto |
| Joanne | Castonguay |
CIRANO |
| Anna | Chiarelli |
Cancer Care Ontario |
| Jocelyne | Chiquette |
Université Laval |
| Nathalie |
de Marcellis-Warin |
CIRANO |
| Michel |
Dorval |
Université Laval |
| Arnaud |
Droit |
Université Laval |
| Douglas |
Easton |
University of Cambridge, UK |
| Gareth |
Evans |
The University of Manchester, UK |
| William |
Foulkes |
McGill University |
| David |
Goldgar |
University of Utah, USA |
| Jalila |
Jbilou |
Moncton University |
| Yann |
Joly |
McGill University |
| Suzanne |
Kamel-Reid |
University of Toronto |
| Nora |
Pashayan |
University College London, UK |
| Sean |
Tavtigian |
University of Utah, USA |
| Michael |
Wolfson |
University of Ottawa |
| Éric |
Bourbeau |
Telus Health – Solutions |
| Hilary | Burton |
Public Health Genomics Foundation, Cambridge, UK |
| Francine | Cléroux |
Fondation québécoise du cancer du sein |
| Gordon | Glendon |
Ontario Cancer Genetics Network |
| Bernard | Lespérance |
Université de Montréal |
| Linda | Rabeneck |
Cancer Care Ontario |
| Marie | Rochette |
Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux |