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Project profile: a multicenter study on breast cancer in young women in Latin America (PRECAMA study)
Isabelle Romieu1, Carine Biessy2, Gabriela Torres-Mejía1
1Centro de Investigación en Salud Poblacional, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Objective:
To describe the rationale and the methodology of a multicenter project to study the etiology of breast cancer in young Latin American women.
Materials And Methods:
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has established an international collaborative population-based case-control study in four countries in Latin America: Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico (the PRECAMA study). Standardized methodologies were developed to collect information on reproductive variables, lifestyle, anthropometry, diet, clinical and pathological data, and biological specimens. The study will be extended to other countries in the region.
Conclusions:
PRECAMA is unique in its multidisciplinary approach that combines genetics, genomics, and metabolomics with lifestyle factors. Then data generated through this project will be instrumental to identify major risk factors for molecular subtypes of breast cancer in young women, which will be important for pre- vention and targeted screening programs in Latin America.
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