Patient Care Advice for Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Know Your Breast Density By Leslie Orr Oct. 22, 2020 Find out if you have higher-risk, dense breast tissue and talk to your doctor about additional screening.
Patient Care When Motherhood, Breast Cancer and COVID Collide: How One Local Teacher Persists Despite Challenges By Ruth Harper-Rhode Oct. 16, 2020 While every pregnancy is unpredictable, Colleen Molina had no idea the upheaval she was about to face. In February 2020, she found out she had breast cancer, mere weeks before her second child was ...
Research One Way to Prevent Cancer: Map the Fundamentals of How Cells Go Awry By Leslie Orr Oct. 8, 2020 Wilmot scientists focused on proteins involved in breast and brain cancer and melanoma, and made a new discovery.
Patient Care Friendly, Comfortable yet Cutting-Edge: A Breast Cancer Patient's Experience at Pluta Cancer Center By Ruth Harper-Rhode Feb. 13, 2020 Joanne Paratore's friends thought she was crazy for driving four hours, round-trip to get breast cancer care. Joanne's response? "Come with me one time."
Patient Care A Scientific Approach to Breast Cancer: One Survivor Shares Her Thought Process By Ruth Harper-Rhode Jan. 10, 2020 As a biology major, Lorna Wright knows what cancer looks like, and she recognized it when it popped up on the screen in her own ultrasound. A scientific approach to decision-making helped her through ...
Research Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Benefits Cancer Survivors with Heart Failure By Leslie Orr Nov. 11, 2019 A pacemaker-like device restored heart function in a group of cancer survivors — mostly women with breast cancer — who had suffered from heart failure as a result of chemotherapy, a study in the ...
Patient Care How to Reduce Your Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence: An Expert’s Guide By URMC Communications Oct. 22, 2019 Most women treated for breast cancer have something else in common: they worry about the cancer coming back. Michelle Shayne, M.D., shares helpful info on reducing the risk of recurrence.
Research UR Awarded $29 Million for National Leadership in Cancer Control Research By Leslie Orr Sep. 30, 2019 UR Medicine’s Wilmot Cancer Institute is continuing its practice-changing research into cancer side-effects and symptom management with a coveted $29 million grant from the National Cancer ...
Patient Care Living Well, with Cancer By Lydia Fernandez Jul. 17, 2019 Melissa Sciortino was tired of being tired. She was eight months pregnant in 2014 when she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. When her cancer spread, she knew she had to do something, and that led ...
Research Harvey Selected to Lead University of Rochester Medical Center Imaging Sciences By Leslie White Jul. 11, 2019 Jennifer Harvey, M.D., F.A.C.R., of the University of Virginia, has been selected to serve as chair of Imaging Sciences, pending approval of the Provost. She succeeds David L. Waldman, M.D., Ph.D., ...
