An international team of experts, including the Uganda Cancer Institute, is developing a groundbreaking mobile breast cancer diagnostic kit to enhance early detection in Uganda, where 70% of cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage.

Before the protocol, every patient underwent a Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool evaluation, yet there was no established protocol for sharing the results.

Perdikis now holds the recently established G. Patrick Maxwell, M.D. Chair of the Department of Plastic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Speakers at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center 25th Annual Scientific Retreat detailed the history of hereditary cancer discoveries and gave overviews about ongoing research. 

A study led by researchers from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center sheds light on some of the genetic variants that make breast cancer more deadly for women of African ancestry and significantly reduces the disparity in knowledge for assessing their genomic risk factors.

The Food and Drug Administration first granted marketing approval for the DigniCap system for patients with breast cancer in 2015, then in 2017 the FDA expanded the authorization, making it the first cooling cap cleared for use in cancer patients with solid tumors, such as breast cancer, ovarian cancer and colorectal cancer.