Every year thousands of doctors, researchers and patient advocates descend on San Antonio in Texas for the world’s biggest breast cancer research conference. Breast Cancer Now was in attendance at this year’s San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium from 6-10th December, joining over 7,000 delegates from more than 80 countries to be the first to hear the very latest developments in breast cancer research. Here we round up the highlights.
Understanding risks
We know the causes of breast cancer are a complex mix of our genetics, our lifestyle and the environment, and in 2016 some more of that complexity was pulled apart.