Advancing Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer

CBCRP launched the Global Challenge to Prevent Breast Cancer in 2018 to surface new and innovative ideas for research to prevent breast cancer. Ten finalists were selected out of dozens of submissions from across the globe, and they presented their ideas at the Global Challenge Idea Showcase and Competition in May 2019, where three winners were named. Now, we are excited to announce the publication of a new special issue in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) highlighting these finalists, their ideas, and CBCRP’s efforts to advance the primary prevention of breast Cancer.

The special issue, Advancing Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer, includes an article about the Global Challenge, articles from six of the Global Challenge finalists, and an article about other CBCRP primary prevention efforts, including the Comprehensive Breast Cancer Primary Prevention Plan for California. IJERPH is an open-access journal, so all articles can be read online free of charge.

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We hope that these ideas will catalyze other breast cancer prevention research efforts across the globe and help prevent the more than two million cases of breast cancer that occur each year. We hope they will ignite the imagination, and inspire others to prioritize and invest in prevention research. Prevention should be the next horizon for breast cancer research, and we aim to catalyze it in part by presenting the exciting ideas in this special issue.

Table of Contents

• Editorial: The Global Challenge to Prevent Breast Cancer: Surfacing New Ideas to Accelerate Prevention Research
  Nicholas J. Anthis and Marion H.E. Kavanaugh-Lynch
• Grand Prize (Researcher Category): Environmental Exposures during Puberty: Window of Breast Cancer Risk and Epigenetic Damage
  Rama Natarajan, Dana Aljaber, Dawn Au, Christine Thai, Angelica Sanchez, Alan Nunez, Cristal Resto, Tanya Chavez, Marta M. Jankowska, Tarik Benmarhnia, Jiue-An Yang, Veronica Jones, Jerneja Tomsic, Jeannine S. McCune, Christopher Sistrunk, Stacey Doan, Mayra Serrano, Robert D. Cardiff, Eric C. Dietze and Victoria L. Seewaldt
• Audience Choice Award: Targeted Transdermal Delivery of Curcumin for Breast Cancer Prevention
  Michele Atlan and Josh Neman
• Finalist: Environmental Influences on Mammographic Breast Density in California: A Strategy to Reduce Breast Cancer Risk
  Barbara A. Cohn and Mary Beth Terry
• Finalist: Mapping the Human Exposome to Uncover the Causes of Breast Cancer
  Vincent Bessonneau and Ruthann A. Rudel
• Finalist: Breast Cancer Gone Viral? Review of Possible Role of Bovine Leukemia Virus in Breast Cancer, and Related Opportunities for Cancer Prevention
  Gertrude C. Buehring and Hannah M. Sans
• Finalist: Epigenetic Biomarkers for Environmental Exposures and Personalized Breast Cancer Prevention
  Hannah Lui Park
• Perspective: An Expanded Agenda for the Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer: Charting a Course for the Future
  Mary C. White, Marion H.E. Kavanaugh-Lynch, Shauntay Davis-Patterson and Nancy Buermeyer

More Information

• Read more about the Global Challenge winners
• View the video of the Global Challenge Idea Showcase and Competition
• Read summaries of the ideas submitted to the challenge
• Learn more about our third round of Program Initiatives

If you have questions, please email us at Challenge@CABreastCancer.org.