Researchers to Study Role of Immunologic Factors in Breast Cancer among Women of African Ancestry
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 09:56
in Health & Medicine
Christine Ambrosone, PhD, Chair of Cancer Prevention and Control and Kelvin Lee, MD, Chair of Immunology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), have received a grant for $165,000 from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to study the possible link between adaptation to endemic infectious disease and the possibility of being diagnosed with aggressive breast cancers among women of African ancestry.