Tumors that are estrogen-receptor positive depend on estrogen to grow. - Olufunmilayo Olopade

There have been very few studies of women across different populations, so that’s why everyone has focused on my work,. But there are women all over the world Indian women, Hispanic women who develop triple-negative breast cancer, and most of these women didn’t know they were at risk for it.

People in Africa have been understudied, and even African-Americans in this country have been understudied.

I thought that if I committed myself to identifying risk factors and then to determining how to lower individual risk, then that would really be a lifelong pursuit.