Plan to attend a symposia session entitled, “Breast Cancer As a Multifactorial Disease: Interaction of Genetics, Life Stages, and the Environment,” and learn more about the complex interaction among the potential contributors to breast cancer Risk. The session will be held at 2 pm on Monday, March 12 in Room 103 of the Moscone Convention Center.
Despite decades of research into its causes and treatments, breast cancer remains the most common invasive cancer and the second leading cause of cancer mortality for women in the US About one in eight women will contract breast cancer in their lifetime. Worldwide, breast cancer comprises 22.9 percent of all cancers (excluding no melanoma skin cancers) in women. In 2008, breast cancer caused 458,503 deaths worldwide (13.7 percent of cancer deaths in women). Breast cancer is more than 100 times more common in women than breast cancer in men, although males tend to have poorer outcomes due to delays in diagnosis. To follow-up on the 2011 report of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Breast Cancer and the Environment study that was funded by Komen for the Cure, expert panelists will explore the complex interaction among the potential contributors to breast cancer risk.