Advocacy In Action: How Breast Cancer Advocates Talk About Personalized Medicine To Patients – Video

Posted: February 25, 2013 at 3:45 pm

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Advocacy In Action: How Breast Cancer Advocates Talk About Personalized Medicine To Patients
Vital Options International presents Advocacy in Action bringing together influential leaders of the cancer advocacy community to address: Personalized Medicine: What it means, its relevance for patients, collection of tissue specimens, and a discussion on metastatic breast cancer in young women. This is Part 1 of 4. Joining Vital Options Founder and CEO, Selma Schimmel, as co-hosts of the 3rd Annual Advocacy in Action Forum -- Elyse Spatz Caplan (Director, Programs Partnerships, Living Beyond Breast Cancer), Ginny Mason (Executive Director, Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation), Shirley Mertz (Board Member - Metastatic Breast Cancer Network MBCN), CJ "Dian" Corneliussen-James (Executive Director, METAvivor). Dr. Larry Norton is Deputy Physician-In-Chief For Breast Cancer Programs and the Medical Director of the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). He is the first incumbent of the Norna S. Sarofim Chair in Clinical Oncology at MSKCC and recipient of the American Society of Clinical Oncology #39;s 2004 David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award.

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