November 8 – Cancer News Review

In this month's podcast, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Director William Nelson discusses breast cancer awareness,  breast cancer guidelines and screening controversy, and an overview look at new approaches to breast cancer treatments.

Program Notes:

0:35 Breast cancer awareness
1:32 Controversy regarding screening
2:34 Look as if the woman lived longer
3:32 Can we figure out which ones will get worse?
4:28 Guidelines reevaluated often
5:35 19 out of 100 Medicare recipients
6:35 Look at broad approach to breast cancer
7:33 Women have every right to expect
8:25 Our understanding of inherited risk factors
9:17 Aid in improving cardiovascular risk
10:00 End