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Ambitious entries in the Grand Challenges Canada competition from Women’s College scientists
Imagine having a mobile app that gives people in Kenya instant access to tools and information about coping with traumatic stress brought on by child abuse or neglect. Or how about the chance to screen every woman in the Bahamas for a dangerous mutation that increases the risk of breast cancer.

BRCA mutations and breast cancer risk
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, affecting one in nine. In a small number of cases – about five to seven per cent – breast cancer is the result of a genetic change that makes a woman more susceptible to it. These genetic changes occur on the breast cancer 1 and breast cancer 2 – or BRCA1 and 2 – genes, and are known as BRCA mutations.

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