The idea is to gather molecular and genetic clues from as broad a group of metastatic breast cancer patients as possible. “Everything about breast cancer is about survivors and beating cancer,” MacGregor said. “My life depends on it.”More than 200,000 people, mostly women, are diagnosed with breast cancer nationwide each year. According to a 2014 analysis from an alliance of breast cancer advocacy groups, less than 10 per cent of government and non-profit groups’ investment in breast cancer research in recent years went to studying metastatic disease. “Metastatic breast cancer in general is an understudied area,” says Mark Hurlbert of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Source: National Post October 03, 2016 14:03 UTC