Bradley Roberts Published in the Journal of Medical Primatology

Bradley Roberts ’15 is first author on a paper that was published online with the Journal of Medical Primatology in March. The manuscript developed out of an internship he completed with the Division of Comparative Pathology at the U.S. Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS) in Bangkok, Thailand last summer. While there, Roberts discovered a case of ductal carcinoma (a type of breast cancer) in a male rhesus macaque. As there are two reports of mammary carcinoma in male non-human primates and none in the rhesus macaque, Roberts and his team worked to characterize the carcinoma through immunohistochemical analysis  and present its characteristics in relation to ductal carcinoma found in male humans. The investigation contributes to the knowledge base of mammary carcinomas in the male rhesus macaque and adds to the limited data available on non-human primates.