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Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. (2013)
By: Abigail Cave
| Published: Aug 02, 2024
In the 2013 legal case Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., hereafter AMP v. Myriad, the United States Supreme Court held in…
PatentNucleotide sequenceBreast CancerBRCA1 geneBRCA2 gene
Nancy Goodman Brinker (1946– )
By: Dina A. Lienhard
| Published: Dec 12, 2017
Nancy Goodman Brinker founded the largest breast cancer organization in the US, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, during the twentieth century. In 1982,…
Breast CancerBreast--Cancer--TreatmentBreast--Cancer--Treatment--Social aspectsNational Cancer Institute (U.S.)
Stafford Leak Warren (1896–1981)
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Aug 30, 2017
Stafford Leak Warren studied nuclear medicine in the United States during the twentieth century. He used radiation to make images of the body for…
Warren, Stafford L. (Stafford Leak), 1896-1981RadiologyMedical radiologyRadiology--ResearchCancer--Interventional radiology
Mary-Claire King (1946– )
By: Meilin Zhu
| Published: Aug 23, 2017
Mary-Claire King studied genetics in the US in the twenty-first century. King identified two genes associated with the occurrence of breast cancer,…
GeneticsBreast--Cancer--SusceptibilityBreast--Cancer--Prognosis--Statistical methods--CongressesBreast--Cancer--ResearchDNA fingerprinting
HIP Randomized Breast Cancer Screening Trial (1963–1982)
By: Dina A. Lienhard
| Published: Aug 08, 2017
From 1963 to 1982, researchers in New York City, New York, carried out a randomized trial of mammography screening. Mammography is the use of X-ray…
ExperimentsHIPMammographyBreastcarcinoma
“Screening for Breast Cancer with Mammography” (2013), by Peter Gøtzsche and Karsten Jørgensen
By: Dina A. Lienhard
| Published: Aug 08, 2017
Screening for Breast Cancer with Mammography is a Cochrane systematic review originally published by Peter Gøtzsche and Karsten Jørgensen in 2001 and…
LiteratureMammographyBreastcarcinomaCancer