CHIP and mCA associated with higher breast cancer risk and colorectal cancer mortality individually

ACS Journal Cancer shared a post on X about a paper titled “Association of clonal hematopoiesis and mosaic chromosomal alterations with solid malignancy incidence and mortality” published in ACS Journal.

Authors: Pinkal Desai, Ying Zhou, Justin Grenet, Samuel K. Handelman, Cynthia M. Crispino, Laura N. Tarbay, Eric A. Whitsel, Gail Roboz, Ana Barac, Michael Honigberg, Alexander Bick, Garnet Anderson, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Yasminka A. Jakubek Swartzlander, Jason Bacon, Justin Wong, Xiaolong Ma, Paul Scheet, Zichan Li, Pashtoon Kasi, Ross Prentice, Paul Auer, JoAnn E. Manson, Alexander Reiner, Michael Simon.

“CHIP and mCA (CF >5%) were associated with higher breast cancer risk and colorectal cancer mortality individually. These data could inform on novel pathways that impact cancer risk and lead to better risk stratification.”

Pinkal Desai, Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, shared the post by ACS Journal Cancer, adding:

“Excited to share this publication !! Congratulations to all my collaborators Alex Bick, Michael Honigberg, Paul Auer, Ying Zhou , Alex Reiner, JoAnn Manson , Samuel Handelman among many others!!”

Source: ACS Journal Cancer/X and Pinkal Desai/X