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Professionals Discuss Cutting-edge Research, International Theories on Chemoprevention
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Patrick Borgen, MD, director, Brooklyn Capstone Breast Cancer Project, presents an update on BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing and management during yesterday’s Minisymposium presentations on chemoprevention. |
An offer for free BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing software, an admonition against radiation treatment for “baby” cancers, and a discussion of the public health role of tamoxifen and raloxifene highlighted the Wednesday afternoon Minisymposium on chemoprevention.
In three provocative presentations, speakers V. Craig Jordan, PhD, Patrick Borgen, MD, and Laszlo Tabar, MD, FACR(Hon), discussed various issues dealing with early detection and prevention of breast cancer. As Jordan put it, “This talk was not possible 20 years ago-because it was just ideas” rather than proven reality.
Jordan’s presentation focused on the history of tamoxifen, beginning with the early 1970s when physicians “were scared to use it because they were afraid it would introduce massive drug resistance,” to today, when “it has created a fundamental change in health care,” he said. ...
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Experts Suggest Management Strategies of Benign Breast Disease
Daniel A. Osman, MD opened the Minisymposium yesterday by sharing his perspective about the Miami Breast Cancer Conference as a whole. “This is a conference with very serious topics, but we run it in an informal way. I can’t exactly tell you what that means, but you will understand as it goes on. In addition, we always try to have fun at various social events.”
Benign breast disease is prevalent among women and often difficult to manage. “Maybe we need to think Diseaseabout other possibilities [regarding treatment], and maybe a lesser procedure,” said Osman, referring to the first segment of the Minisymposium.
The first speaker was Rache M. Simmons, MD, FACS, Anne K. and Edwin C. Weiskopf associate professor of surgical oncology, Joan and Sanford Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY. She opened by describing successful management of benign breast disease using cryoablation. ...
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Thursday Program Addresses Early Breast Cancer, Advances in Breast Imaging
Thursday's MBCC program includes eight presenters discussing developments in early breast cancer treatment and diagnosis, with three physicians presenting on the increasingly important role of breast imaging.
Among the early breast cancer presentations, Lance Liotta, MD, PhD, professor of life sciences, co-director, Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, Department of Molecular and Microbiology, George Mason University, will discuss whether molecular markers or genetics can predict the future course of DCIS (8:00 am).
“Doctors see a lot of DCIS and some becomes invasive cancer, but a large percentage doesn’t,” said Daniel A. Osman, MD, MBCC course director. “This presentation and the other early breast cancer presentations deal with determining which early cancers need treatment.” ...
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Meet the Osman Family
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The Osman family, from left to right, grandaughter Melissa Jarrett, sister-in-law Jeri Hall, Lois & Daniel Osman, and daughter Sharon Burgos. |
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There aren’t many medical conferences where the organizers routinely gather in hallways to tell jokes, small children scurry around the registration tables, and the speaker dinner features more bibs than napkins.
But then there aren’t many medical conferences like the Miami Breast Cancer Conference.
MBCC’s atmosphere is a reflection of its founding family—Daniel A. Osman, MD, and his wife, Lois, a retired nurse and executive director of a large south Florida health care plan. “I honest to God don’t know how our conference became known as so friendly and homey,” Dan Osman said modestly. But attendees seem to understand why. The Osmans’ warmth, humor and generosity make the 1,000 or so people who attend the conference each year feel like members of a big family. ...
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This issue of MBCC News is sponsored by Agendia.
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