Findings from Black Women’s Health Study and Research about Uninformative Genetic Test Results Among Topics Presented by GUMC Researchers at AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Meeting

December 4, 2008

Researchers from Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Georgetown University Medical Center presented numerous scientific findings at the Seventh Annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research in Washington, on November 16-19, 2008. Presentations by Lombardi researchers included topics such as colonoscopy use among black women, pregnancy and breast cancer, genetic testing feasibility prior to breast cancer surgery, BRCA1/2 uninformative results and distress, BRCA1-related cancer development, and estrogen-related breast cancers.

In addition, three Lombardi faculty members were selected to give oral presentations at the meeting. Those chosen were Lucile Adams-Campbell, associate director for minority health and health disparities research, Jeanne Mandelblatt, associate director for population sciences, and Marc Schwartz, leader of the cancer control program.

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