Breast SPOREs

Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer diagnosed in women in the United States and is second only to lung cancer in cancer deaths. Approximately 230,480 new invasive breast cancers will be identified in women in 2011 and about 39,520 deaths will be attributed to this disease. During the course of her lifetime, a woman has a one in eight chance of developing breast cancer. Much progress has been made over the past decade in identifying hereditary factors, as well as novel therapeutic and preventative agents for breast cancer. The Breast Cancer SPORE program has grown from 1992, when four sites were funded. The spectrum of studies supported by these grants includes the development of novel agents (e.g., liposomes, small molecule inhibitors, anti-estrogens, retinoids, vaccines and antibodies), technologies (e.g., microarrays, database mining), and markers (i.e., newly identified genes/proteins related to breast cancer) for the better diagnosis, prognosis, screening, prevention, and treatment of breast cancer.

Baylor College of Medicine

C. Kent Osborne, MD [Click Here]
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza, BCM 600
Houston, TX 77030
Tel: (713) 798-1600
Fax: (713) 798-1642
Email: kosborne@bcm.edu

For more information on this specific SPORE’s institution, please visit:
http://www.bcm.edu/breastcenter/index.cfm?PMID=0

Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Institute

Eric Winer, MD [Click Here]
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department of Medical Oncology
Division of Women’s Cancers
450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Tel: (617) 632-2261
Fax: (617) 632-1930
Email: ewiner@partners.org

For more information on this specific SPORE?s institution, please visit:
http://dfhcc.harvard.edu/spores/breast/
http://trp.cancer.gov/spores/abstracts/dfhcc_breast.htm

Duke University

H. Kim Lyerly, MD [Click Here]
George Barth Geller Professor of Research in Cancer
Director, Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Surgery
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
Duke University Medical Center
2424 Erwin Road
Hock Building, Suite 601
Durham, NC 27710
Tel.: (919) 684-5613
Fax: (919) 684-5653
Email: lyerl001@mc.duke.edu

For more information on this specific SPORE’s institution, please visit:
http://www.cancer.duke.edu/modules/BreastOvarian2/overview.php

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Peggy Porter, MD [Click Here]
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Fairview Avenue North
PO Box 19024, C1-015
Seattle, WA 98109-1024
Tel: (206) 667-3751
Fax: (206) 667-7264
Email: pporter@fhcrc.org

For more information on this specific SPORE’s institution, please visit:
http://www.fhcrc.org/about/ne/news/2010/11/10/NCI_awards_$11.5_million_to_Fred_Hutchinson_Cancer.html

Johns Hopkins University

Sara Sukumar, PhD [Click Here]
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Oncology
1650 Orleans Street, Suite 409
School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD 21231
Tel: (410) 955-8489
Fax: (410) 614-4073
Email: sukumsa@jhmi.edu

For more information on this specific SPORE’s institution, please visit:
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/2000/OCTOBER/001016.HTM

Mayo Clinic, Rochester

James N. Ingle, MD [Click Here]
Co-Director, Women’s Cancer Program
Mayo Clinic and Foundation
Department of Oncology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
200 First Street Southwest
Rochester, MN 55905
Tel: (507) 284-8432
Fax: (507) 538-0823
Email: ingle.james@mayo.edu

For more information on this specific SPORE’s institution, please visit:
http://cancercenter.mayo.edu/mayo/research/womens_cancer/spore_grant.cfm

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Kirby I. Bland, MD [Click Here]
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Department of Surgery
1808 7th Avenue South, Room 502
Comprehensive Cancer Center, BDB
Birmingham, AL 35233-0012
Tel: (205) 975-5000
Fax: (205) 975-2199
Email: kirby.bland@ccc.uab.edu

For more information on this specific SPORE’s institution, please visit:
http://www.uab.edu/ccc/breast-spore/index.htm

University of California, San Francisco

Laura van ‘t Veer, PhD, Director [Click Here]
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Box 0808
San Francisco, CA 94143
Express delivery:� Sutter Street, N415; San Francisco, CA 94115
Tel: (415) 476-6023
Fax: (415) 502-2773
Email: vantveerl@cc.ucsf.edu

For more information on this specific SPORE’s institution, please visit:
http://cancer.ucsf.edu/research/breast_spore

University of Chicago

Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD, FACP [Click Here]
Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor
Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics
Director, Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program
University of Chicago Medical Center
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 2115
Chicago, IL 60637
Pager: (773) 702-1632
Fax: (773) 702-0963
Email: folopade@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu

For more information on this specific SPORE’s institution, please visit:
http://uccrc.uchicago.edu/Spore/sporehome.html

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

H. Shelton Earp, III, MD [Click Here]
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Medicine
Campus Box 7295, Rm. 10-012
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
Tel: (919) 966-2335
Fax: (919) 966-3015
Email: hse@med.unc.edu

For more information on this specific SPORE’s institution, please visit:
http://cancer.med.unc.edu/research/spore.asp

Vanderbilt University

Carlos Arteaga, MD [Click Here]
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Vanderbilt-Ingram University Cancer Center
Department of Medicine
2200 Pierce Avenue
777 Preston Research Building
Nashville, TN 37232
Tel: (615) 936-3524
Fax: (615) 936-1790
Email: carlos.arteaga@vanderbilt.edu

For more information on this specific SPORE’s institution, please visit:
http://www.vicc.org/spores/breast/