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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon joins Smilow Cancer Hospital
Haripriya Ayyala, MD, has been named an Assistant Professor of Surgery (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery) and cares for patients as part of the Center for Breast Cancer at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center.
21 Nov 2022
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Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Police Team to Raise Breast Cancer Awareness
Members of Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center spent time together on Friday, October 28 on the New Haven Green with members of the Yale Police Department – along with a special, pink-themed Yale Police SUV – to highlight Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
31 Oct 2022
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Pembrolizumab Shows EFS Benefit in TNBC Without Complete Response
Lajos Pusztai, MD, DPhil, discusses key takeaways from analysis of the KEYNOTE-522 clinical trial of pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant or adjuvant setting for patients with triple-negative breast cancer.
Source: Targeted Oncology
27 Oct 2022
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Connecticut Woman Says Her Breast Cancer Didn’t Feel Like She Thought It Would
(WTNH) – October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and each week in our Positively Pink series we are introducing survivors. One woman discovered her own breast cancer, but she says it didn’t feel like she thought it would.
Source: WTNH
26 Oct 2022
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Contraceptive Use Declines After Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Contraceptive use declined significantly after treatment for early breast cancer, according to a prospective analysis of nearly 3000 premenopausal women.
Source: MedScape
21 Oct 2022
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Glastonbury Breast Cancer Patient Raises Awareness and Funds for Yale Cancer Center
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — “I believe that this is a gift from God,” said 47-year-old Sandy Cassanelli of Glastonbury. News 8 first met the mom-of-two in October of 2018 at Dee’s One Smart Cookie, raising awareness and funds for her organization, Breast Friends Fund. And again in 2020, supporting the mission in the fresh air during the pandemic, spreading her message through group yoga at a farm. “I was put on this earth for this reason, to have this disease, and do what I do and show people faith, show people hope, love,” she said.
Source: WTNH
20 Oct 2022
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Experts Say There's a Greater Need for Access to Care Among Those with Dense Breast Tissue
Detecting cancer is more difficult in women with dense breasts. Those women are more likely to be women of color, experts say.
Source: NBC CT
20 Oct 2022
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Black Women Are Still More Likely to Die of Breast Cancer Than White Women — Here's What Experts Want You to Know
The American Cancer Society released new statistics about racial disparities in breast cancer mortality rate.
Source: SHAPE
17 Oct 2022
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The Importance of HER2 Categorization for Metastatic Breast Cancer Treatment
Deconstructing a long-held diagnostic standard has expanded treatment options for over half of metastatic breast cancer patients.
Source: Washington Post
14 Oct 2022
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More Than Mammograms: We Break Down the Different Types of Breast Cancer Screenings
Find out why a mammogram might not be enough. Every year in the United States, about 264,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women and about 2,400 are found in men, according to the CDC. This year, Katie was one of them. On average, a woman has a roughly one in eight chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime. In stark black and white, these sound like pretty alarming statistics — but the numbers don’t tell the whole story.
Source: Katie Couric Media
14 Oct 2022
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Advancing Care - October 2022
That ache in your belly: Is it a hernia? Don’t get blindsided by dry eye syndrome Screening is key to detect breast cancer Schedule your mammogram online Laboratory services are open Find a Doc at L+M or WHM Billing questions?
Source: YNHH Lawrence Memorial Hospital
13 Oct 2022
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Jennifer Garner's Trainer Released a Free Exercise Series for People Recovering from a Mastectomy
Learn more about the 12-week program and what experts say about exercising after cancer treatment.
Source: SHAPE
6 Oct 2022
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What is the Impact of Breast Density Notification Laws?
Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) President John Lewin, MD, associate professor of radiology and biomedical imaging, and division chief, breast imaging, at the Yale School of Medicine, discusses how legislation concerning dense breast laws have impacted mammography.
Source: Health Imaging
5 Oct 2022
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Kim Blenman, PhD, MS, Talks Development of Cell-Counting Software for Breast Cancer
Kim Blenman, PhD, MS, discussed the promising developments in cell-counting software for predicting pathologic complete response in breast cancer.
Source: Cancer Network
27 Sep 2022
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Fighting Breast and Ovarian Cancer With a Lupus Antibody
After discovering a specific lupus antibody that can penetrate cancer cells and, with a grant from Women's Health Research at Yale, showing it makes cancer cells vulnerable to standard treatments, Dr. Peter Glazer and his colleagues are moving a treatment to clinical trials.
26 Sep 2022
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How Moving More and Sitting Less May Help Lower Breast Cancer Risk
New research adds further evidence to the link between increased physical activity and lower risk of breast cancer.
Source: Health.com
15 Sep 2022
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Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy Effective Regardless of Race in Triple-negative Breast Cancer
Results of a phase 1/phase 2 study showed similar treatment outcomes among Black and non-Black women who received durvalumab plus chemotherapy prior to surgery for triple-negative breast cancer.
Source: Healio
29 Jul 2022
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Benefits of Pre-surgical Immunotherapy Were Independent of Race in Patients with Aggressive Breast Cancer
Treatment outcomes were similar between Black and non-Black patients with triple-negative breast cancer who received neoadjuvant durvalumab (Imfinzi) plus chemotherapy, according to phase I/II clinical trial results published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Source: AACR
29 Jul 2022
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Yale New Haven Gets New Mobile Mammography Unit
Yale New Haven Health has a new mobile mammography unit to celebrate their 35 years of saving lives, and this unit has all the bells and whistles.
Source: Channel 3 News
28 Jul 2022
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HER2-Targeted Therapy Improves Outcomes for Breast Cancer Patients
In this exclusive video, Maryam Lustberg, MD, MPH, chief of Breast Medical Oncology at Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut, discusses the data presented at ASCO on HER2-targeted therapy for breast cancer patients.
Source: Medpage Today
19 Jul 2022