Summary
We continued to develop, refine and evaluate the National Cancer Institute’s Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool (BCRAT). Dr. Mateo Banegas, a NCI Cancer Prevention Fellow, developed a new model for absolute invasive breast cancer risk for Latina women. There is interest in determining whether adding information from single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) can increase the discriminatory accuracy and usefulness for screening of risk models. We demonstrated improved risk stratification of breast cancer by adding SNPs to a variety of more standard risk factors. Using data from 1.4 million women
