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born 1957 Nigeria
Olufunmilayo Olopade (born 1957) is a Nigerian hematology oncologist, Associate Dean for Global Health and Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago.
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To kill them you have to use chemotherapy, which has all the side effects and may not always work.
People in Africa have been understudied, and even African-Americans in this country have been understudied.
Right now, most women in the world are diagnosed with breast cancer at an advanced stage.
We're going to assemble a group from totally different environments to see what might be the common thread.
Tumors that are estrogen-receptor positive depend on estrogen to grow.
The estrogen receptor negative tumors are estrogen independent.
The more compelled I became to figure it out.
The more compelling horror stories I heard from my patients.
The hope for precision medicine is to have the right drug for the right person at the right time
We need to accelerate prevention that can be adopted in low-resource settings or adopted in this country as a way to help low-income women care for themselves.
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.
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.
medical school in Nigeria, we were always taught that prevention was better than a cure.
By disseminating such information in front of the community of oncologists, we were given the opportunity to change practice
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.
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.”
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