J: Welcome everyone. I am Jake Rossein, I graduated Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University where I got my PHD in cell physiology and biostatistics. Several years of studies and hard work has put me where I am today.
Tonight, we will hear a few of the highly educated doctors and experts in the field of breast cancer talk about their knowledge and experiences studying this deadly disease. In the United States, 1 in 8 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. It is estimated that each year over 220,000 people will be diagnosed with breast cancer and is the second leading death among women. Fortunately, breast cancer deaths have gone down in recent years due to advancements in screening and treatment options and earlier detections.
Without further adieu we welcome Professor Trent Starr from the University of Harvard. Trent graduated from Bucknell University where he received his PHD in cancer studies. Over to my left is Doctor Richard Zampieron who is the head of Cancer treatments at Stony Brook University. He is also the co founder and co creator of the American Cancer Society. And finally Liam Waring, who is the surgical operations specialist at the Lehigh valley hospital.
So gentlemen before we explain about about the diagnosing and treatment for both cancer and cancerous cells forming in both males and females, let 's talk about different hints and clues that may save your life in terms of how to detect and catch this deadly disease while it
According to breastcancer.org, Breast Cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide and the second most common cancer overall. In 2016, an estimated 247,000 cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. alone. So no matter who you are or where you live, understanding breast cancer is very important. But the most important thing to know is that a diagnosis is NOT a death sentence, it can be treated.
It is estimated that 40,030 deaths from breast cancer (39,620 women, 410 men) are will occur in 2013. Breast cancer is second only to lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths in women. Breast cancer death rates have been decreasing steadily since 1989, rates decreased by 3.0% per year in women younger than 50 and by 2.0% per year in women 50 and older between 2005 and 2009. This decline is attributed to prevention, early detection, improved healthcare services and reduced use of MHT.
There are many different diseases that terrorize the human race every day. Of all of these sicknesses, one of the most devastating is breast cancer. Breast cancer touches all types of people all over the world each day. It is actually the second most common cancer amongst women in the United States. One in every eight women in the United States has some form of breast cancer and currently, the death rates are higher than any other cancer with the exception of lung cancer. Cancer is defined by the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary as “a malignant tumor of potentially unlimited growth that expands locally by invasion and systemically by metastasis.” Therefore, breast cancer is a disease of
“In 2015, there are more than twenty-eight million women with a history of breast cancer in the United States of America. This Includes women currently being treated and women who have finished treatment. – BreastCancer.Org“ Breast cancer has taking over many people bodies, also lives. Anybody can get breast cancer from man to women. Cancer doesn’t have to be in your family history for you to get it.
Breast cancer constitutes the second most prevalent cancer most common among women of the world with an estimated 1.62 million reported cases in 2012 which constitutes 25% of all cancer cases and ranks fifth among mortality due to cancer (Ferlay et al., 2015). In the United States, according to American Cancer Society an
After high school, he entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “where he studied E.coli DNA repair under Dr. Graham C. Walker” (Hopkins Medicine). After obtaining his B.S. in Biology, he went on to further his career by pursuing medical school, at Yale University, where he received his medical degree in 1984; notably, he graduated with high honors in having earned a place in Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. During his medical residency, he specialized in Rheumatology, where he did his fellowship at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. In July 2012, he became the 14th dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and just the second CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine (Hopkins Medicine). He holds a variety of honors and awards in the medical society for his life works such as the James S. McDonnell Foundation Career Development Award, Pfizer Scholars, Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, Leukemia Society of America Scholar, and the Pharmacia Allergy Research Foundation International Award (Hopkins
Audience Link: There is a large amount of men and women who are diagnosed with breast cancer everyday but they usually don’t know how it forms and ways it can be treated. Breast cancer is a very serious disease that shouldn’t be taken likely. Even if you do not have breast cancer, chances are that you know or will
When Nelson first came to UCSF in 1990, she worked in a small research laboratory that used to be housed underneath the Parnassus parking structure. In the laboratory, she was joined by John Kurhanewicz, PhD, Professor of Radiology, School of Medicine; Sharmila Majumdar, PhD, Professor of Radiology, School of Medicine; and Daniel Vigneron, PhD, Professor of Radiology, School of Medicine.
All around the world, breast cancer has become a huge issue and has effected many lives.
Academically, my extensive course work at St. James School of Medicine has allowed me to gain an understanding and passion for medicine.
Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in the US for women (http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/understand_bc/statistics). Even though the diagnosis and treatment of this condition has improved dynamically over the past few decades, it is still one of the leading causes of mortality among the women in USA and all over the world. There are usually four stages of breast cancer (http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/understand_bc/statistics).
Catherine Roux and Eric Dion have both earned a PhD and Anne Barrette earned a Bachelor of Science from Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. Véronique Dupéré has a PhD from University de Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Douglas Fuchs earned a PhD from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
where he received his Master of Science degree and went on to UCLA to finish his surgical
1) Approximately every two minutes a woman in the US is diagnosed with breast cancer. It is a common form of cancer that affects more than 180,000 women in the US each year.3
Dr. Katsis graduated from Oral Roberts University and then went on to attend medical school at the University of Nebraska. After obtaining his Medical Doctorate in 1993, he went to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences for an