Live Online Video Mesothelioma Cancer Chat with Penn Medicine Experts 5/1

Join Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center and 6ABC for a special one-hour live web chat featuring physicians from the Penn Mesothelioma and Pleural Program this Thursday May 1st from 4-5 pm at 6abc.com/pennmedicine.Mesothelioma - Did you know?Mesothelioma is a rare, incurable disease, with approximately 2,000–3,000 new cases diagnosed a year in the United States. Exposure to asbestos accounts for up to 80% of all cases. Mesothelioma is more common...

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Join us for a FREE Skin Cancer Prevention Conference

Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center invites you and your loved ones to attend CANPrevent Skin Cancer, a free educational conference for anyone interested in learning about preventing skin cancer.CANPrevent Skin Cancer is designed to address the personal and medical issues facing those at risk for skin cancer. The conference provides patient-focused information about the latest advances in skin cancer risk, screening and prevention. Who Should Attend Anyone...

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Join Us For a FREE Melanoma Conference

Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center invites patients, family members and anyone interested in learning about melanoma risk, prevention, diagnosis and treatment to attend Focus On Melanoma. Focus On Melanoma is a free educational conference featuring a keynote address by Singer/Songwriter and Survivor,  Charlie Lustman,  Penn’s Focus On Melanoma Conference addresses the personal and medical issues facing people with melanoma including those in...

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Understanding Barriers in Health Care Among Minority Populations

This week is National Minority Cancer Awareness Week, which draws particular focus to the inequalities and disparities that affect minority populations, when seeking or receiving care for cancer. This year, nearly 1.6 million people will be diagnosed with cancer. Those numbers will disproportionately affect minority populations. Although complex social, economic and cultural factors play a role, these disparities demonstrate the need for greater...

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New Stress Management Programs at Penn

Spring is a great time to find new balance, and take moments to get on track with work, home life and fun with your family. The Penn Program for Mindfulness is a mindfulness-based stress management program that teaches you how to use meditation as the primary tool for long-term stress management. Mindfulness meditation is taught in a completely practical way as a powerful tool to manage the physical, psychological, and behavioral symptoms of stress.Below...

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Office of Diversity Recognizes National Minority Cancer Awareness Week

Curtiland Deville, MD, is an Assistant Professor and Chief of the Genitourinary and Sarcoma Services in the Department of Radiation Oncology. He has a research interest in assessing and improving diversity in the cancer physician workforce as a means to addressing health disparities. In this article, he discusses National Minority Cancer Awareness Week.On April 8, 1987, the U.S. House of Representatives' Joint Resolution 119 designated the full...

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Amyloidosis Support Group - This Saturday 4/12

Join The Amyloidosis Program at Penn Medicine and the Amyloidosis Support Group this Saturday, April 12 from 9am-230pm for the Biannual Amyloidosis Support Group. The Biannual Amyloidosis Support Group Comes to Penn MedicineIn partnership with the Amyloidosis Support Group, Penn Medicine's Amyloidosis Program will be hosting this year's Biannual Amyloidosis Support Group event.The event will featue a questions and answers segment...

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Twenty Years Later: How Breast Cancer Risk Genes are Changing Patient Care

BRCA1 and BRCA2, the genes implicated in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, have become common parlance, especially since Angela Jolie’s May 2013 disclosure of her genetic mutation and subsequent mastectomy. This has not always been the case - just twenty years ago, these genes were being discovered.In a “Perspective” article featured in Science Magazine, Dr. Katherine L. Nathanson, MD, Director of Genetics and a funded investigator at the...

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Modern Healthcare Features the Basser Center’s Sculpture, Homologous Hope

Modern Healthcare, a leading source of healthcare business and policy news, research and information reports on the Homologous Hope sculpture, designed to honor the Basser Research Center for BRCA of Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center.Highlighting the sheer size of the sculpture—900 pounds—and it’s fidelity to the actual form and function of the BRCA2 protein, Modern Healthcare emphasized artist Mara G. Haseltine’s desire to spin hope from science...

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Double Mastectomies: What Price for Peace of Mind?

More magazine recently reported on the trend towards increased rates of double mastectomy, featuring an eye-catching image of a female torso with open circles dotting the bare chest instead of breasts which had been hollowed out from the statue. Investigating this trend towards mastectomy, the article extensively quotes Susan Domchek, MD, director of the Basser Research Center for BRCA at Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center.While a proven method...

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