What Healthy Breast Tissue Teaches Us: Lessons from the Komen Tissue Bank
Coinciding with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this Simon Says session takes a look at what researchers have learned from breast tissue that has been donated by both healthy women and men to the Komen Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Hari Nakshatri, Ph.D., presents a comprehensive look at the achievements researchers have discovered thanks to those who have donated to the tissue bank. He will discuss how estrogen, a hormone produced by both men and women, acts as a critical player in fueling the growth of a significant number of breast cancers but behaves differently in men and women. The intriguing complexities of estrogen’s role in breast cancer may hold the key to understanding why men and women respond differently to current anti-estrogen therapies.
Nakshatri is the Marian J. Morrison Professor of Breast Cancer Research at Indiana University School of Medicine and the associate director of education at the cancer center. Stephanie Lesher, vice president of development with the Catherine Peachey Fund, serves as the moderator.
