Cancer is much like a puzzle—the most difficult puzzle you’ll ever do, as we don’t know the final picture, we don’t know how to get there and we have no starting point! It can feel quite overwhelming, but all cancer research aims to try and solve one piece in that very complicated puzzle.
Dr Felicity Davis and her team at Mater Research are taking a different approach, they want to understand the physiology of the breast so we can attack the problem in a new way.
Put simply, they’re trying to find those elusive edge pieces to create the border of the puzzle.
“Our research takes the unique position that cancer should not be pigeonholed and studied as a separate biological entity, but instead considered as a ‘broken-normal’.”
“Through our research we want to better understand normal breast tissue and that of pregnant and breast feeding women, and how these changes in the breast may affect the development of cancer."