We're going to assemble a group from totally different environments to see what might be the common thread. - 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.

Ten years later we actually have done that people are increasingly doing risk assessment in their practices, they are counseling women about their familial risk, and they are offering interventions that have been lifesaving for many women from high-risk families.”