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Genetic Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk
If you have a strong family history of breast or ovarian cancer, is there a test that could help determine your odds of developing cancer? For some people with certain...
by Patient Power | 05/03/2012
Breast Cancer Screening Saves Lives
Breast cancer related mortality has decreased by 25 percent over the past 15 years, which many credit, in part, to earlier detection. In this podcast, Dr. Kevin Bethke discusses the...
by Patient Power | 03/20/2012
My Journey from Pathologist to Breast Cancer Survivor
In a matter of days, breast pathologist Dr. Kim Allison went from diagnosing cancer in other people to exploring treatment options for her own stage III breast cancer. In this podcast, you will hear...
by Patient Power | 09/14/2011
Educating Yourself About Early Stage Breast Cancer
62-year-old Mary Clingman, a labor and delivery nurse from Maple Valley, Washington had an intuition she would never develop breast cancer. So she wasn’t careful to get yearly mammograms. After...
by Patient Power | 03/10/2011
Why Clinical Trials are So Important for Metastatic Breast Cancer
Clinical Trials are critical to advancing medical science and the potential to find new treatments and ways to manage metastatic breast cancer.  During this program, two leading experts, along with...
by Patient Power | 03/01/2011
The Treatment Landscape for Metastatic Breast Cancer
During this program, two leading breast cancer experts, one a medical oncologist and one a radiation oncologist, as well as a breast cancer survivor, will help you understand the treatment...
by Patient Power | 02/11/2011
An Expert Opinion: The News on Lymph Node Removal in Breast Cancer
Hear the latest from Dr. Ben Anderson, a surgical oncologist from the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, as he discusses the latest breast cancer news regarding lymph node removal.  Dr. Anderson...
by Patient Power | 02/09/2011
Understanding Metastatic Breast Cancer
  Metastatic breast cancer occurs when breast cancer cells are transported to other parts of the body via the circulatory and/or lymphatic systems and begin to multiply there. There are...
by Patient Power | 01/31/2011
News Central: What Progress Have We Made in the Fight Against Breast Cancer?
What progress have we made fighting breast cancer? Is mammography still as important? Find out from two world-renowned experts: Drs. Julie Gralow and Gabriel Hortabagyi.
by Patient Power | 10/05/2010
Cancer and Bone Health
Declining bone health is common as people age, but cancer treatment may also cause loss of bone mass. In this program, learn about the risks and symptoms of osteoporosis, and...
by Patient Power | 08/10/2010
Cancer Genetics
Genetics can impact your risk for cancer. How can you learn your risk? Where do you start? In this program two leading experts from the Cancer Genetics Program at Northwestern,...
by Patient Power | 07/13/2010
Treating Locally Advanced Breast Cancer
A cancer diagnosis can be scary. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women. The good news is that survival rates today are higher than ever due to...
by Patient Power | 04/20/2010
Clinical Trials: Access to Cutting Edge Therapy at Community Hospitals
When you receive a cancer diagnosis you want to have as many treatment options as possible. Having access to an institution with clinical trials can give you cutting edge therapies...
by Patient Power | 03/03/2010
Advanced Treatment Options for Breast Cancer
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by Patient Power | 02/01/2010
Advanced Breast Cancer: Treatment Decisions
How do you get quality care if you're diagnosed with breast cancer? And how does a team approach really help so you can feel confident that the treatment being recommended...
by Patient Power | 01/21/2010
Personalized Treatment for Breast Cancer
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by Patient Power | 12/31/2009
Screening Controversy and the Next Wave of Patient Empowerment
Much of what patients heard about the new breast cancer screening guidelines in December of 2009 not only confused them, but also caused quite a debate. Do mammograms need to...
by Patient Power | 12/15/2009
Breaking News: A Breast Radiologist’s Perspective on Cancer Screening Guidelines
Connie Lehman, M.D. is Director of Breast Imaging at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and a highly respected researcher at the University of Washington. She has led many studies, including...
by Patient Power | 11/17/2009
Expert Perspective on Breast Cancer Screening
Talk from the November 15th, 2009, "How to be a Powerful Patient" event, featuring Dr. Connie Lehman, and many others.
by Patient Power | 11/15/2009
An Expert’s Comment on Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines
With breast cancer being responsible for over 40,000 deaths a year, who should be screened and who shouldn't? On this episode of Patient Power sponsored by Seattle Cancer Care Alliance...
by Patient Power | 11/11/2009
Surgical Options for Breast Cancer
Surgical options for breast cancer can leave women feeling overwhelmed. On this episode of Patient Power, Andrew is joined by Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) breast surgical specialist Dr. Kristin...
by Patient Power | 10/28/2009
Breast Cancer Imaging
In a prefect world, early detection for all cancer patients and seamless collaboration with radiologists, surgeons, and oncologists, would change the lives of many patients. With 1 in 8 women...
by Patient Power | 10/21/2009
Advances in Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) is an extremely rare but very aggressive form of breast cancer. It is critically important to get diagnosed early and accurately, and get immediate treatment by...
by Patient Power | 06/16/2009
Your Risk of Breast Cancer: What's Age Got to Do with It?
Based on what you see in the eye of the media, you may think that the average woman with breast cancer is a Mom in her 30s with young children....
by Patient Power | 05/26/2009
BREAKING NEWS: Women Avoid Hormones, Breast Cancer Rate Drops
One medical question that has confused postmenopausal women for years is should a woman take hormone replacement therapy, specifically the combined used of estrogen plus progestin? Does it increase the...
by Patient Power | 02/06/2009
Neo-Adjuvant Therapy and Dynamic Imaging for Breast Cancer
Breast cancer research continues to advance, but simultaneously treatment options become more complicated. On this episode of Patient Power, you’ll learn what neo-adjuvant therapy and dynamic imaging are doing for...
by Patient Power | 11/12/2008
Molecular Imaging for Breast Cancer: State-of-the-art trials at SCCA
State-of-the-art clinical trials for breast cancer patients are yielding promise. Advances in molecular imaging combined with the goal of personalized cancer therapy requires new approaches to clinical study design for...
by Patient Power | 10/08/2008
Cancer & Lymphedema
Lymphedema, also known as lymphatic obstruction, is caused by an interruption of normal lymphatic flow, occurring most commonly in women who have had breast cancer surgery with removal of lymph...
by Patient Power | 10/07/2008
Partial Breast Irradiation for Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients
Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation (APBI) is offering some breast cancer patients more treatment options. This new radiation therapy is given to the breast after a lumpectomy, precisely delivering radiation to...
by Patient Power | 09/24/2008
Personalized Medicine for Breast & Ovarian Cancer
Studies show that patients with the same type of cancer can have very different outcomes, even with the same treatment. Now physicians and researchers are developing personalized medicine treatment plans...
by Patient Power | 06/17/2008
Breast Cancer: Surgical Treatment Options
When facing a breast cancer diagnosis, surgery is often a treatment option. There are a variety of issues to address when deciding upon treatment. In this ihealth webcast sponsored by...
by Patient Power | 05/27/2008
Breast Cancer: Medical Treatment Options
Over the past 20 years, breast cancer screening and treatment has evolved, and breast cancer is now looked at as a spectrum of disease. In this Patient Power program on...
by Patient Power | 05/13/2008
Anti-Angiogenic Therapy: Inhibiting Tumor Growth in Breast Cancer
The past several years have given us some great news concerning cancer treatment and it seems we can continue to be optimistic. In this Patient Power program sponsored by the...
by Patient Power | 04/09/2008
Breast Cancer Patient Power
In this webcast, Dr. Ken Miller from Yale Cancer Center and two breast cancer patients discuss questions that arise with a breast cancer diagnosis. Dr. Miller is the author of...
by Patient Power | 04/08/2008
Treatment Options for Cancer Pain
About one-third of patients being treated for cancer experience pain, and each patient’s pain is unique. The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has experts that carefully design...
by Patient Power | 04/01/2008
Targeted Treatments for Breast Cancer
It is a really exciting time in cancer research as targeted therapies are showing very promising data. These constant improvements in medicine are giving patients a chance to live longer...
by Patient Power | 10/24/2007
Genetics & Cancer Risk
Whenever the topic of cancer is discussed, central to the conversation are questions of where cancer comes from and why certain individuals develop the disease. During the past several years,...
by Patient Power | 10/16/2007
Breakthroughs in Breast Imaging
Breast cancer is a devastating diagnosis that in the past left patients with very little hope of recovery. Science has come a long way and continues to make important discoveries...
by Patient Power | 10/03/2007
Surviving Breast Cancer: The Healing Power of Hope
We may see celebrities and outspoken activists talking about breast cancer and how it has changed their lives, but often the voices of ordinary women and survivors are not heard....
by Patient Power | 07/10/2007
Breast Cancer: Is Chemotherapy Alway Necessary?
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by Patient Power | 07/04/2007
ASCO 2007: Reports from the latest meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Each year experts from around the world gather at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting to present the latest research findings related to cancer. This authoritative discussion about the...
by Patient Power | 06/10/2007
Breast Cancer Update: ASCO 2007
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conference unites some of the most brilliant minds in medicine from around the world to discuss important findings in research intended to clear...
by Patient Power | 06/10/2007
Minorities and Cancer Risk: Raising Awareness
Risk for health issues can be related to many factors such as genetics, family history and lifestyle choices. One of the biggest health disparities in America is observed with race....
by Patient Power | 05/21/2007
Three Cancers: One Woman’s Experience
In this Patient Power program, Kathlyn Conway, a clinical social worker and practicing psychoanalyst, joins Andrew Schorr to talk about her book Ordinary Life: A Memoir of Illness, a book...
by Patient Power | 05/10/2007
Breast Cancer: Expert Opinions and Advice
The American woman has a one in eight chance of being diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. In this Patient Power program, Dr. Nora Hansen, joins Andrew to discuss...
by Patient Power | 05/07/2007
Helping Children Understand Cancer
Dealing with a diagnosis of cancer is never easy from a personal standpoint, and it can be especially difficult to share the diagnosis with love ones, particularly children. Should you...
by Patient Power | 04/23/2007
The Importance of Mammography
by Patient Power | 10/04/2006
The Benefits of Targeted Therapy
by Patient Power | 10/04/2006
Breast Cancer
by Patient Power | 02/06/2006
How a Clinical Trial Can Give You Tomorrow's Medicine Today
Clinical trials offer patients a glimpse of hope for treating diseases. Patient involvement is the foundation for clinical trials and without participants, there is not much room for advancement. Still,...
by Patient Power | 01/29/2006