Benjamin O. Anderson

TL;DR: The Community-based Program for Breast Health in Peru is a successful example of stakeholder and collaborator involvement-both internal and external to Peru-in the design and implementation of resource-appropriate interventions to increase breast health-care capacity in a middle-income Latin American country.

TL;DR: Tumor targeting with tozuleristide allowed visual real-time distinction between pathologically confirmed breast carcinoma and normal tissue, and the relationship of carcinoma to margins intraoperatively.

TL;DR: A cluster randomized trial was performed in Bogota, Colombia between 2008 and 2012 to evaluate effects of opportunistic breast cancer screening as discussed by the authors, where physicians in intervention clinics were instructed to perform clinical breast examination on all women aged 50-69 years attending clinics for non-breast health issues.

TL;DR: The Global Breast Cancer Initiative (GBCI) as mentioned in this paper is a systematized approach, with the goal to increase the fraction of newly diagnosed invasive cancers being stage 1 or more, ensure diagnostic work-up to be completed within 60 days from the first connection with the primary healthcare providers to avoid delays in diagnosis and treatment and assure 80% or more women with breast cancer to undergo and complete multimodal treatments.

TL;DR: Differences in stage at presentation should represent a primary target for research, to determine which interventions best reduce disparities in cancer outcomes among women from different social or racial groups.