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Smilow Shares CME: Perspectives on the USPSTF Breast Screening Recommendations
On Tuesday, September 19, 2023, experts from Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center shared: Perspectives on the USPSTF Breast Screening Recommendations.
20 Sep 2023
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Get Comfy During Breast Cancer: Feel-Good Clothes, Wigs, Scarves
Breast cancer treatment can change how you look and feel. Whether it’s shifting what you wear or how you decide to handle hair loss from chemo, you're still in charge.
Source: WebMD
11 Aug 2023
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Breast Cancer Research Breakthroughs Signal Paradigm Shifts Across Disease Subsets
Maryam Lustberg, MD, MPH, discusses insights regarding other key breast cancer data presented at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting, including findings from the phase 3 BWEL trial, updated data from the phase 2 ELAINE-2 trial, and the final overall survival analysis of the phase 3 TROPiCS-02 trial.
Source: OncLive
20 Jul 2023
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Specialty Breast Cancer Care in Guilford, Connecticut
The Breast Cancer Specialty Team at Smilow Cancer Hospital in Guilford brings together clinicians whose focus is caring for patients with breast cancer on the Connecticut Shoreline.
20 Jul 2023
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Dr. Veda Giri Receives Bakes for Breast Cancer Grant
Dr. Veda Giri received a grant from Bakes for Breast Cancer to fund her PROSPER study which focuses on early onset cancer.
10 Jul 2023
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CDK4/6 Inhibitors in Breast Cancer: New Populations, Different Settings
At the American Society of Clinical Oncologyopens in a new tab or window (ASCO) annual meeting, a poster discussion session on metastatic breast cancer entitled "CDK4/6 Inhibitors: New Populations, Different Settings" was presented by Maryam Lustberg, MD, MPH opens in a new tab or window, the chief of breast oncology at the Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut. She discussed the results from three posters -- the LEONARDA-1 studyopens in a new tab or window, the PALOMAGE programopens in a new tab or window, and the AURORA Molecular Screening Initiativeopens in a new tab or window.
Source: MedPage Today
26 Jun 2023
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Don’t Let Breast Cancer Subtype Guide Mastectomy Choice, Doctors Say
The decision to have mastectomy is “complex and layered,” says Mehra Golshan, MD, clinical director of the Center for Breast Cancer at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center. It requires a shared decision-making between the patient and the provider, says Golshan, who wasn’t involved in the study. “There are some women who absolutely have to have mastectomy. However, most are eligible for either surgery,” Golshan says.
Source: WebMD
23 Jun 2023
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Profiles in Survivorship: Sheri Steinmetz
My cancer diagnosis felt like an impassable boulder on my path in life. If I could go back in time, I would tell myself to keep an eye towards the happy minutes and moments still ahead.
19 Jun 2023
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What Is Breast Cancer? Types, Symptoms, Causes, Stages And More
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women.
Source: Forbes Health
13 Jun 2023
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How to Better Identify HER2-Low Breast Cancer
David Rimm, MD, PhD, an Anthony N. Brady Professor of Pathology at Yale, discusses if pathologists are adequately quantifying the HER2 immunohistochemistry assay.
Source: MedPage Today
9 Jun 2023
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Studies Question Role of CDK4/6 Inhibitors in First-Line Advanced Breast Cancer
Upfront CDK4/6 inhibition or second-line use in advanced hormone receptor (HR)-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer led to similar cumulative progression-free survival (PFS) in a large randomized trial.
Source: MedPage Today
7 Jun 2023
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HER2-Low Breast Cancers: Are Patients Being Reclassified and Getting Life-Changing Treatments One Year Out? Major Cancer Centers Say Yes
Are Patients Being Reclassified as HER2-Low?
Source: Survivor.net
6 Jun 2023
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Genitourinary, Gastrointestinal, and Breast Cancers, Plus Sarcoma and Melanoma
On Location at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting.
Source: OncLive
5 Jun 2023
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ASCO President on Patient Partnerships
ASCO's 2023 Theme: Partnering With Patients
Source: WebMD
5 Jun 2023
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Yale surgical oncologist shares advanced solutions at breast cancer conference in South Korea
In late April, Tristen Park, assistant professor of surgery and oncologist specializing in breast cancer at the Yale School of Medicine, participated in the Global Breast Cancer Conference (GBCC) in Seoul, South Korea.
Source: Yale University
23 May 2023
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I’m a Breast Cancer Surgeon. Here’s What I Think of the New Screening Guidelines.
When I learned that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force once again changed its recommendation for when women should begin screening for breast cancer — this time recommending women start at age 40 rather than 50 — I had just finished operating on a 48-year-old African American woman with aggressive breast cancer. My patient had presented to doctors with a painful lump. She didn’t think she needed a mammogram for another two years.
Source: The New York Times
16 May 2023
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Health Headlines: Mammograms recommended at age 40
In today’s health headlines: Mammograms are now recommended to begin at age 40, the link between breast density changes and your cancer risk, and women fell behind on mammograms during the pandemic.
Source: WTNH
10 May 2023
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New Study Shows Trastuzumab Deruxtecan Improves Survival for Patients with HER2-positive Metastatic Breast Cancer
A new phase III study has demonstrated the efficacy of trastuzumab deruxtecan (Enhertu) in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer whose cancers were resistant to previous treatment with trastuzumab emtansine. Both trastuzumab deruxtecan and trastuzumab emtansine are antibody-drug conjugates, a relatively new type of drug that delivers chemotherapy directly to the cancer cell, minimizing damage to normal tissues. The study was published in The Lancet on April 19, 2023.
2 May 2023
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Nyberg- Local non-profit supports underserved single mothers with metastatic breast cancer
A local nonprofit helps to support underrepresented single mothers living with metastatic breast cancer in Connecticut.
Source: WTNH
29 Mar 2023
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Early-Onset Cancer Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital
Director of the Early-Onset Cancer Program, Dr. Veda Giri, explains goals for the program and why it is important.
28 Mar 2023