What is your mission? How do you make it happen? Our mission is to offer a community of support to women, of all Jewish backgrounds, diagnosed with breast cancer or at increased genetic risk, by fostering culturally-relevant individualized connections with networks of peers, health professionals, and related resources. How is your organization unique? Sharsheret is […]
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The American Society of Breast Surgeons held their 16th Annual Meeting from 4/29/15-5/3/15 in Orlando, Florida – approximately 1400 were in attendance. The following are thoughts and highlights from some of the surgeons who attended the meeting. The full program can be viewed here and the official proceedings, which contains the abstracts, can be viewed here. This […]
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Tell us about your breast cancer experience, including diagnosis and treatment: I was diagnosed with invasive colloid (mucinous) carcinoma on March 4, 2014. A regular screening mammogram had found a 1.8-cm tumor in my left breast. The tumor was removed via lumpectomy on March 25 with clear margins and was ER/PR positive, HER2 negative. Four sentinel lymph […]
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by Lori Marx-Rubiner and Dr. Emil Lou The 2015 meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research was held in Philadelphia April 18th – 22nd. Lori Marx-Rubiner attended the conference – here are her thoughts: In the “Breaking News” department – at least as pertains to breast cancer – I thought this year’s AACR was […]
Read more › This continues a monthly series profiling a physician member of the #BCSM Community. Why does connecting on social media matter to you? It has become a rich source of feedback, whether it is on a new study, news item, or drug approval, I have found the insights from other perspectives to be quite important, and […]
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