Prior to moving out west, Dana was a consultant at a boutique healthcare strategy consulting firm in New York, where she advised clients on targetscreening, acquisition and product commercialization opportunities.
This could allow us to divide the general population into risk categories, in order to better target monitoring and preventative strategies, such as screening for breast and bowel cancer, to those at greatest risk.
The charity agrees with Dr Pfeffer that the screening programme information, which suggests women outside the target age range can request an appointment, can be confusing.
High-throughput screening uses robots to test the actions of thousands of compounds against a molecular disease target (itself identified by genomics).