Patient Care Wilmot Cancer Institute Opens Comprehensive Breast Care Facility at Pluta By Leslie Orr May. 12, 2014 The Wilmot Cancer Institute announces the opening of UR Medicine’s Comprehensive Breast Care at Pluta. The Henrietta facility will serve as the home for the renowned multidisciplinary breast cancer ...
Community Cancer Services Program Honored with W.B. Potter Founder’s Award By Karin Gaffney Christensen Apr. 3, 2014 Part of the Center for Community Health, CSP was recognized with the 2014 W.B. Potter Founder’s Award by the Ad Council of Rochester.
Patient Care URMC First in Region to Offer HER2 FISH Testing for Breast Cancer By URMC Communications Oct. 8, 2013 Breast cancer is not a ‘one size fits all’ disease, and now women throughout the Rochester area will have quicker access to a test that measures the HER2/neu status of their tumor, enabling a better ...
Research Mental Fog with Tamoxifen is Real; Scientists Find Possible Antidote By Leslie Orr Sep. 17, 2013 A team from the University of Rochester Medical Center has shown scientifically what many women report anecdotally: that the breast cancer drug tamoxifen is toxic to cells of the brain and central ...
Research Researchers Identify New Pathway, Enhancing Tamoxifen to Tame Aggressive Breast Cancer By Leslie Orr Apr. 22, 2013 Tamoxifen is a time-honored breast cancer drug used to treat millions of women with early-stage and less-aggressive disease, and now a University of Rochester Medical Center team has shown how to ...
Patient Care NY Law: Following Mammography, Physicians Must Notify of Breast Density By Leslie Orr Jan. 16, 2013 A New York state law that went into effect Jan. 19, 2013, could impact up to half of all women who get annual mammograms, according to Avice O’Connell, M.D., director of Women’s Imaging at the ...
Research Breast CT Imaging System Marches Forward, as Pain-Free Tool to Aid Mammograms By Leslie Orr Dec. 3, 2010 While questions persist about the best ways to detect breast cancer early, a CT imaging system developed at the University of Rochester Medical Center and first unveiled four years ago is in a better ...
Research Panel Enacts New Standards for Breast Tumor Testing By Leslie Orr May. 5, 2010 Testing for estrogen and progesterone biomarkers following a breast cancer diagnosis is critically important to treatment decisions, yet an international panel that included a University of Rochester ...
