OICR Co-Director of Diagnostic Development Dr. Melanie Spears answers a question from a patient.

What are the chances my cancer will come back? It’s a question on the mind of just about every person undergoing cancer treatment.

There are several tests and tools that doctors use to predict if cancer will recur. And at OICR, we are working on developing new tests to accurately measure the risk of recurrence.

In our latest Ask a Cancer Researcher video, OICR Co-Director of Diagnostic Development, Dr. Melanie Spears, discusses some of the tools used to predict breast cancer recurrence, in response to a question from patient partner Koko Bate Agborsangaya.

Watch the video below and consider submitting your own question to be answered by one of OICR’s expert researchers.