Join The Amyloidosis Clinic at Penn Medicine and the Amyloidosis Foundation next Saturday, November 2 from 10am-2pm for the Biannual Amyloidosis Support Group. The Biannual Amyloidosis Support Group Comes to Penn MedicineIn partnership with the Amyloidosis Foundation, Penn Medicine's Amyloidosis Clinic will be hosting this year's Biannual Amyloidosis Support Group event. The event will featue a questions and answers segment with guest speaker Nishant Tageja, MD, Metabolism Branch of the National Cancer Institute/ National Institute of Health...
Monday, 28 October 2013
Friday, 25 October 2013
From left to right: Mike Saperstein, Rachel Kachnycz, Marnie Passaretti, Mark Kutner, and Dr. Steven Brem (moderator)The brain drives everything we do and powers our emotional connection to the world, making a brain tumor diagnosis particularly harrowing with the potential to be incredibly isolating. The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania held its 3rd annual Focus on Brain Cancer Conference – and for many...
Bringing together expert physicians from multiple specialties, the Amyloidosis Clinic at Penn Medicine is leading the way in the evaluation and management of patients with systemic amyloidosis. This Focus On Cancer post, with thanks to clinic director Brendan M. Weiss, MD, highlights the causes, diagnosis and treatment of amyloidosis.What is Amyloidosis?Amyloidosis is a rare and potentially life threatening disease that occurs when toxic proteins...
We tend to think of breast cancer as only a woman’s disease. While it is true breast cancer affects mostly women, male breast cancer makes up less than one percent of all breast cancer cases. The following types of breast cancer are found in men:Invasive ductal carcinoma. Cancer that has spread beyond the cells lining the ducts in the breast. Most men with breast cancer have this type of cancer.Ductal carcinoma in situ. Abnormal cells that are found...
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Risk factors affect the chance of getting breast cancer, Having a risk factor, or even several, does not mean that someone will get breast cancer. Most women who have one or more breast cancer risk factors never develop the disease, while many women with breast cancer have no apparent risk factors (other than being a woman and growing older).There are different kinds of risk factors. Some factors, like age or race, can't be changed. Risk factors...
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Carole Gross is a fighter. Eight years ago, she battled thyroid cancer. She won. But this year, a new fight was chosen for her – this time, the battle would be in her breast. Within two weeks of her diagnosis of breast cancer following a routine mammogram, Carole had a lumpectomy at Doylestown Hospital, a member of the Penn Cancer Network.“I’m a ‘get it done’ kind of person,” says Carole. “I just wanted it out so we could move to the next step.”...
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
NBC News quotes the Basser Research Center for BRCA Director Dr. Susan Domchek in this piece on paternal transmission of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer risk. Breast Cancer Awareness month is an excellent time to gather your family history of cancer—on both mom and dad’s side-- and gain genetic counseling to determine if you may benefit from genetic testing and are at increased risk.Read Sarah Lien’s story and watch the videos from NBC News...
Tomika BryantTomika Bryant was diagnosed with breast cancer and treated at the Abramson Cancer Center in 2013. In this article, she discusses her diagnosis and how she learned to heal. She can be found blogging at My Mommy's Neighborhood and supporting other women at Pink Ribbon Stilettos.Did she really say those words to me? I can hear her talking but it seems that she is speaking a different language. I know my daughter is reading out loud so maybe...
Monday, 21 October 2013
What does classical music have to do with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer?This fall at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, the fifth season of PREformances with Allison Charney begins, with funds raised benefiting The Basser Research Center for BRCA of Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center and programs at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan that promote early detection of cancer and care for those living with breast and ovarian cancer....
The Abramson Cancer Center is pleased to present the Penn Women’s Cancer Conference, a day-long conference dedicated to topics on women’s cancer including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, genetics and living well after breast cancer and gynecologic cancer treatment. This conference was one of the first in the country to address the issues and concerns of breast and gynecologic cancer survivors and their families.Whether at risk for women’s cancer,...
Friday, 18 October 2013
October 18, 2013 is National Mammography Day. In this blog, guest writer Erica Voll recalls her first mammogram. Mammograms are available throughout most Penn Medicine locations. To schedule your mammogram at Penn Medicine, call 1-800-789-PENN (7366). I got the prescription for my first mammogram in the summer of 2011. It was at my 6-week postpartum checkup, and I was told to wait until six months after I was done breastfeeding and go get a...
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Christine Wilson, cancer survivor, shares her experiences from the The American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO) national conference in 2013. Every year in the first week of June, over 30,000 cancer specialists and researchers from around the world gather to present their latest findings on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of science. At a recent continuing medical education meeting, experts from the Abramson Cancer Center summarized...
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Liz Barker is a mother, a wife, a writer and a breast cancer survivor. In this blog, she remembers he diagnosis at 34 years old - while pregnant with her son. What are the odds of being the One?We know the basics: Breast cancer will, on average, strike one out of 9 women. What we don’t know is who that unlucky “one” will be. Is there a certain typecast to be that “one?"Unfortunately, as was the case with my diagnosis, there is often no stereotypical...
Monday, 14 October 2013
Carla S. Fisher, MD, is an assistant professor of surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine and a breast surgeon. Dr. Fisher sees patients at the Rena Rowan Breast Center. In this blog post, Dr. Fisher discusses ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, and why sometimes when it comes to treatment for breast cancer, less is more. In 2011, I wrote an article for this blog about the evolution of the surgical treatment of breast cancer. I discussed the progression...
Friday, 11 October 2013
Christine Wilson, cancer survivor, shares her experiences from the The American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO) national conference in 2013. Every year, cancer specialists and researchers from around the world gather to present their latest findings on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of science. At a recent continuing medical education meeting, experts from the Abramson Cancer Center summarized some of the most important...
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Join Penn Medicine and Oncolink for two free presentations about healthcare coverage including the Affordability Care Act and Medicare Open Enrollment on Friday, October 25.Both events take place at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC).What People with Cancer Need to Know About Medicare Open EnrollmentDate: Friday, October 25Time: Noon to 1:30 pmLocation: Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC), 51 North 39th Street, Heart and Vascular Pavilion...
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Bracketing Previvor Day on October 2, the Basser Research Center for BRCA held two programs to educate the Jewish community about the increased incidence of BRCA1/2 mutations in individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. For those who did not make the New York City or Philadelphia events, Central Synagogue has provided access to the program. Watch the video below, or on YouTube to hear experts including the Basser Center’s Susan Domchek, MD, discuss breast and ovarian cancer risk and management of individuals who carry mutations in the BRCA1 or...
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Christine Wilson, cancer survivor, shares her experiences from the The American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO) national conference in 2013. This summer, 30,000 cancer specialists and researchers from around the world gathered to present their latest findings on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of science. At a recent continuing medical education meeting, experts from the Abramson Cancer Center summarized some of the most important...
Monday, 7 October 2013
On Thursday, October 10, 2013, from 6 to 9 PM (ET), QVC® is scheduled to air the 20th Annual QVC Presents “FFANY Shoes on Sale,” a charitable shoe sale to benefit breast cancer research and education institutions.This October, the multimedia retailer will once again join the Fashion Footwear Association of New York (FFANY) to offer nearly 100,000 pairs of shoes from over 80 brands at half the manufacturer’s suggested retail price* with net proceeds...
Friday, 4 October 2013
Photo courtesy of Katie Bradford Osborne Pamela Badolato lives in Berwyn with her husband, 4 year old son, 2 year old twins, and newborn baby. Despite having four children aged 4 and under, she loves spontaneous adventures and having new experiences with them. Pamela is the Associate Publisher of Main Line Parent and Philadelphia Family Magazines. I remember sitting in our kitchen, and hearing my mom trying to explain to my sister and I...
Thursday, 3 October 2013
As one in a series of Jewish community educational events, Penn Medicine’s Basser Research Center for BRCA is collaborating with Living Beyond Breast Cancer and Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia to sponsor the Breast & Ovarian Cancer Symposium on Sunday, October 6, 2013 from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm.Inherited Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Why Jewish Families Are at Heightened RiskSusan Domchek, MDThe symposium will focus on the Ashkenazi Jewish...
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
This week is Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Week and today is Previvor Day. All week, we are featuring information about hereditary breast and ovarian cancer as well as information about Penn's Basser Research Center for BRCA 1 and BRCA 2.“I grew up with breast cancer,” says Sandy Cohen. “My grandmother died of breast cancer in her thirties, and consequently, my mother became obsessed with breast cancer, and worried she’d develop the disease...
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