Scene Pink: Breast Cancer Lunch Features Lufkin, Harvard

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation gathered more than 170 scientists from around the world this morning to talk with supporters including Maria Baum of Baum Capital Management and Coco Kopelman, mother-in-law of Drew Barrymore.

Titia de Lange, a professor at Rockefeller University, said she studies “how DNA gets messed up during the formation of the tumor.” She is looking at how a cancer that develops inside the duct of the breast, which can’t spread and therefore isn’t lethal, evolves into an invasive cancer.