Breast Cancer

UAB wins $6.4 million nonprofit grant to fight aggressive breast cancer

Published in Health Business Week, May 1st, 2009

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded a $6.4 million grant from two national nonprofit groups that are partnering in the fight against an aggressive and difficult-to-treat form of cancer called "triple negative" breast cancer.

The grant is from Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation.

The $6.4 million will be used to evaluate experimental drugs in combination with standard therapies to treat triple-negative tumors, which are more common in young African-American and Hispanic women. UAB scientists also plan to explore ways to better predict which...

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Source: Health Business Week (2009-05-01)

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