Red Blood Cell Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Breast Cancer Mortality in the Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) Study
Description: Project Narrative This proposed career development award aims to examine red blood cell measures of eight polyunsaturated fatty acid status in relation to breast cancer mortality, as well as breast tumor gene expression, and emphasizes training in nutrition science and molecular epidemiology, which will provide Dr. Parada with expertise necessary for conducting breast cancer research that examines nutrient-environment and nutrient- gene interactions as an independent investigator. Documenting the associations between fatty acids and breast cancer mortality would help to inform dietary intake guidelines for women diagnosed with breast cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related death among US women. Furthermore, results examining fatty acids in association with gene expression may help identify novel biological mechanism by which fatty acids impact breast cancer prognosis.
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Funding type: career_development
Funder scheme: K01
Start date: 2019-09-04
End date: 2025-08-31
Investigator: HUMBERTO PARADA
Institution: SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
Funded outputs count: 54
Funder award ID: K01CA234317
OpenAlex ID: G8187466334