Case Study: The National Breast Cancer Foundation

It is estimated that 39,511 women and 410 men will die of breast cancer this year alone. There will be 229,160 new cases of breast cancer in men and women this year. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death for women. My great grandmother who I look up to and is the strongest person I know, is a two time Breast cancer survivor and she believes that the organization Susan G Komen has made a huge impact on breast cancer in women. In this speech I want to pay tribute to and recognize all the wonderful things Susan G Komen has done in the research and cure for breast cancer. I will start off by talking about how the organization was founded. Next I will discuss all the great things Susan G Komen has done in the fight against breast

California Highway Patrol officers on Thursday were investigating a carjacking after the driver of a pink tow truck dedicated to an Arcata breast cancer center was forced to pull over along Highway 96 and robbed at gunpoint.

The Susan G. Komen Foundation of Greater Atlanta’s goal is to reduce mortality of African American breast cancer by 25% in the next 5 years (Susan G. Komen Atlanta, 2017). In order to reach this goal, Komen has created many local outreach programs to educate the community about breast health and breast cancer screening (Susan G. Komen Greater Atlanta, 2017). Educational programs like these can have significant impacts on breast cancer mortality rates (Asuquo and Olajide, 2015). However, they may need to focus on certain racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic groups (Herndon, et al., 2013). Worship in Pink is one of Komen’s educational outreach programs that provides breast health and screening information to participating religious organizations (Susan G. Komen, 2017).

First a look back: In October, many of us at the Coalition had the pleasure of attending the 3rd Annual Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Seminar right here in Rochester. This event was developed and produced by Physicians and Laypersons Educational Associates of Greater Rochester New York (PLEA of GRNY) an organization founded by mother and son physicians, Dr. Ruby Belton and Dr. Douglas Belton Jr. PLEA of GRNY represents a union of multidisciplinary breast cancer care physicians, other medical caregivers, and laypeople. This seminar offered us a chance to learn about emerging trends in breast cancer treatment, as well as receive updates about current treatments. The multidisciplinary approach meant that physicians specializing in diagnostic radiology, surgical oncology, medical oncology, radiation oncology, plastic surgery and survivorship presented on topics about their specialty areas throughout the evening. It was a treat to have many of our well-known providers front and center at the dais or on the panel. We also heard from a lawyer who presented on the legal aspects of Governor Cuomo’s new

I would like to introduced Susan G Komen and Nancy Bricker. These two girls are sisters and they are also best friends. Susan got diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 33 and lost her battle at the age of 36. Before Susan had passed Nancy had made a promise to Susan that she would end the terrible fight of breast cancer. Nancy her sister said this, “Her journey began with a simple promise to her dying sister, Susan G Komen that would do everything possible to end the shame, pain, fear, and hopelessness caused by this disease.” (Brinker, 2016) Nancy tried her hardest and during that trying period she created a foundation which is called the Susan G Komen Breast cancer foundation. Which was created in memory of her loving sister. Later

As an intern with Magee Womancare International (MWI), the international humanitarian outreach arm of Magee-Womens Hospital, my primary goal was to provide breast health education to underserved African Americans and Latino women throughout the Pittsburgh area, to navigate and support these women through the breast health continuum of care, and to facilitate clinical and mammography screenings through the Breast Health Equity and Circulos de Amigas programs. As a male intern, my role in this program was to engage local and predominantly male-led grassroots organizations and religious groups in breast health education to promote healthy families and ultimately healthy and safe communities. I was also required to assist my fellow undergraduate intern Maddie with her work in the programing and execution of the South Asia Youth Summit (aka SAYS) program. In addition I was expected to assist my Suporvisiors with grant writing and miscellaneous task regarding running our several ongoing current grant initiatives. By the end of my internship at Magee Womencare International I developed a much more fundamental and in-depth understanding of MWI’s history, goals and objectives, the concrete steps involved in successful grant writing and the concrete steps involved in successful event planning among a plethora of other things. …

From this case study, Dr. John Seffrin and the American Cancer Society can be analyzed as leaders in promoting the access to care initiative to ensure equal quality healthcare to lifesaving cancer treatments. One example seen here is the transformational leadership approach. This style according to Northouse (2016) “is a process that changes and transforms people. It is concerned with emotions, values, ethics, standards, and long-term goals” (p. 161), which the American Cancer Society shares in order to reach its goal of providing access to care to patients dealing with this condition to achieve their 2015 goals of reducing cancer death rates by 50%, reduce the cancer incidence rates by 25%, and improve the quality of life for all cancer survivors (Simons & Rosenberg, 2009, p. 4).

One experience where I received a lot of suffering for a significant period is when I found out that my mother got diagnosed with breast cancer. When my mother got diagnosed, the doctors said it was an early catch because there were no physical signs of it. They were surprised that my mother even felt any difference. Thank God, it wasn’t anything serious but at first, they didn’t know if it had spread, which caused me to break a little. I would wake up in the morning and see my dad sitting in the garage by himself just crying sometime, which also broke me even more because I haven’t ever really experience my dad in that type of stage. The only reason I started to deal with it was because my mom was so strong, she would tell me not to worry

Lee Jeans has created a day called "Denim Day". The American Cancer Society and Lee jeans have partnered up to rise above breast cancer. These companies have said no woman should fight the fight alone. This fundraiser allows all participants to donate $5 or more in exchange for wearing jeans to work. Donations help fund research, provides free information and support. It also allows people to know what to do if diagnosed with breast cancer and how to reduce the risk of breast cancer. I think this company and cause is a good fit! Their slogan is One day One cause One cure. They believe convincing enough people to take one small step, together they could reach an incredible goal. If every person who wore jeans to work that day donated to the

During clinical this week, the concept of quality of life vs. quantity of life was something I began to ponder. It all occurred during a breast biopsy for my one patient T.M. As we waited outside the ultrasound room, she began to share some information regarding her condition and health history. She mentioned that she’d lived the majority of her life with lumps in her breast. After her Dr. told her all the lumps were benign 20 years ago, she neglected to ever get her breasts checked and examined after that knowledge. Little did she know that 20 years later, she had developed stage 4-breast cancer in her right breast. As we sat outside the room, she stated she was unsure if she even wanted treatment and whether or not it was worth it,

In 2013, about two months before me and my mom came to the US; she felt something wrong with her breast. Anytime when she was taking a shower, she always touched her body. Because of her age, she needed to check it if there was something wrong. One day, she felt something was inside it, but she did not care about it much. Until the day, it started hurting her, and she felt soreness a bit. She started telling me dad about it, and he drove my mom to the doctor to check if it was a breast cancer or not. After the doctor checked up my mom's breast by using mammogram, the doctor said my mom had a stage 1 breast

Partnerships with institutions: various institutions, which offer quality training, have sought to partner with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The hospital has cases to high quality research labs and equipment in addition to a diverse number of patients, which can offer a great foundation for academic research. By partnering with high class institutions, the hospital will gain a three pronged advantage: on the one hand, there will be access to some of the best talents still under training. Such talent can be specifically trained to join the center. Secondly, the center will still be part of ground breaking research while managing the cost of hiring scientists. And finally, the center will be able to contribute towards furthering medical

Grant it everyone knows that Breast Cancer Awareness is every year and most celebrated in October. Almost every month except August and December, any kind of cancer is celebrated throughout the year. It is so common that we see the symbols of Breast Cancer and see the advertisements but we do not know specifically the purpose for it. Many people just like the symbol because it is a pretty pink bow that they have never seen before and others hardly miss seeing it. The advertisers have done a great job at showing and producing their product. They gave many different ways of showing their audience their product as well.

Breast cancer is a very prominent cancer that is prevalent in one in eight women. Raising awareness for the severity and prevention of this disease Is very important cause to me because my grandmother, aunt, and mother are all breast cancer survivors. Due to this, I have experienced the financial, physical, and emotional toll this specific type of cancer can have on its victims. There are many reasons as to why breast cancer rates are increasing and it is becoming more and more common. There are many factors that can increase the risk of developing the cancer such as the over consumption of alcohol, obesity, hormone replacement therapy, and several other things. There are many organizations that focus on raising breast cancer awareness, but

Medical diagnostic system is a branch in bioinformatics that is concerned with classifying medical records. Breast cancer is the most common deployed cancer in females worldwide. The main obstacle is the vagueness and ambiguity involving the breast cancer data. Human nature handles the vagueness and ambiguity easily. Therefore, doctors diagnose the patient condition using their expertise. Fuzziness and rough boundary theories simulate the human thinking. The fuzzy rough hybrids address the uncertainty in terms of membership degree of truth and lower and upper boundaries of fuzzy rough set theory. This research solves the diagnostic breast cancer problems via a proposed hybrid model of fuzzy rough feature selection and rough neural networks. The medical data is preprocessed by the fuzzy rough feature selection algorithm to remove unnecessary attributes. The reduced data set is applied to the rough neural network to learn the connection weights iteratively. The test data set are used to measure the proposed model accuracy and time complexities. Lower and upper approximations of the input features are weighted by input synapses learnt through training phase. The fuzzy rough proposed model design and implementation are declared. The experiments used WDBC and WPBC data sets from the UCI machine learning repository. The experimental results proved the fuzzy rough model ability to classify new instances compared with the conventional neural network.