Grant Title: Understanding and Preventing Breast Cancer Disparities in Latinas
P50 CA148143 (Beti Thompson, PhD)
Role: Project 4 Leader
Project 4 Title: Relationship of Breast Cancer Subtype, Risk Factors and Ancestry in Hispanic Women

The Collaboration for Hispanic Ancestry and Cancer (CHACO) project in the PUEDO initiative aims to better understand the underlying biology of breast cancer in Hispanic women. Disparities in breast cancer survival between racial and ethnic groups of women have some well-documented social and economic causes. It is possible that differences in tumor biology between racial and ethnic groups also contribute to differences in breast cancer outcomes. The four projects and four cores in this P50 program project, focus researchers from several disciplines on the goal of understanding and preventing pre-cursors of breast cancer and reduce breast cancer morbidity and mortality among Latinas.