The estrogen receptor negative tumors are estrogen independent. - 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.

These cancers may be more common among African-American women, but our discovery was really that there are genetic risk factors for breast cancer in all populations.

To develop a personalized way to identify every woman at high risk, whether African-American or Jewish or Italian or Ukrainian, so that they could go in and have their doctor develop a personalized approach for them.