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Response to the “open letter” of several anti-screening collectives
Four anti-screening collectives located in France, Italy, Belgium, and the United Kingdom recently published an "open letter" questioning the methodology and ethics of the MyPeBS study. Find here the answers of Dr Suzette Delaloge, MyPeBS Coordinating Investigator....
Participation of MyPeBS team in the first edition of ENVISION
The first European conference on risk-stratified prevention and early detection of breast cancer was held from 26 to 28 June 2019 in Austria. The main objective was to pool knowledge and set actions towards implementation of risk-based breast cancer prevention and...
Recent publications by the MyPeBS team
We are proud to share these recent relevant publications by the teams involved in MyPeBS consortium Manchester team highlighted for the first time, the ability of a risk model (Tyrer Cuzick) including density and SNPs not only to predict for breast cancer risk, but...
313 single nucleotide polymorphisms contribute to predict individual breast cancer risk
A woman’s risk of breast cancer is affected by her genetic make up. Some bits of the normal genetic material (DNA) differs between one person and another: they are known as single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs. Different combinations of these SNPs are associated...
ICPV, a voice with MyPeBS
Independent Cancer Patients’ Voice (ICPV) is one of the partners of the MyPeBS consortium. Two of their members, Emse and Debbie, made a statement on why MyPeBS study is so important to them: “As patients with lived experience of breast cancer (one of us diagnosed at...
MyPeBS trial launch consortium meeting
Almost 100 partners as well as stakeholders of the project met in Paris on September 28th 2018 to prepare the launch of the MyPeBS clinical trial. It was the opportunity for all participants to get practical information on all operational aspects of the clinical...
MyPeBS Project Kick off meeting
All partners got together in Paris, on January 12th2018 for the first consortium meeting, to launch the MyPeBS project. Organizational and conceptual issues were discussed regarding the project and the clinical trial. This meeting also was the opportunity for many of...