About 213,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year and 41,000 will die. Now, in the only study of its kind, doctors are asking sisters of breast cancer survivors and victims to step forward to help find a cause and a cure!
Sisters Sara and Denni have a close relationship. Their closeness was important after Sara was diagnosed with breast cancer 10 years ago.
“It turned our world upside down. It was a big shock,” says Sara.
Now, Denni is taking part in The Sister Study. Researchers are looking for 50,000 sisters of women who survived or died from breast cancer.
“Sisters have twice the risk of developing breast cancer as other women,” says Dale Sandler, Ph.D., an epidemiologist with the National Institute of Environmental Health and Sciences in Research Triangle
Park, N.C.
Researchers are looking for genetic and environmental factors. Women in the sister study will take part in a phone interview. They’ll also need to provide blood and urine samples, nail clippings and a sample of dust in their house. The study will last 10 years — but could hold the answers many women are looking for.
“We know it’s not a simple answer,” says Dr. Sanders.
But it’s an answer Sara and Denni would love to help find.
If you would like more information, please contact:
Randi Kahn
The Sister Study
(877) 4-SISTER
[email protected]
