Breast Cancer Perspective

• Episode 5: Treatment/Follow-up for Premenopausal Women With Breast Cancer   Drs Lidia Schapira and Kathryn Ruddy discuss treatment and follow-up care for premenopausal women with breast cancer.
  Medscape, May 17, 2022
• Providing Equitable Care in Early Breast Cancer   Experts at Mount Sinai in New York City report on groundbreaking advances in early breast cancer therapy and discuss strategies to ensure access to comprehensive breast cancer care for all patients.
  Medscape TV, May 09, 2022
• Early Breast Cancer e-Tumor Boards: Case 1: HER2-negative Invasive Ductal Carcinoma   The e-Tumor Boards, a video series collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, gives physicians an inside look into a virtual, multidisciplinary renal cell carcinoma tumor board case discussion.
  Medscape, May 02, 2022
• ESMO BCC 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ESMO BCC 2022
  Medscape Oncology, April 29, 2022
• What Explains 'Sobering' Variations in Breast Cancer Care?   Kathy Miller discusses results from a recent study illustrating the impact of geography on breast cancer care.
  Medscape Oncology, April 28, 2022
• Gendered Expectations of Physician Accessibility A research paper validates an oncologist's lived experience with gender-biased workloads, especially related to the EHR, as her daily clinic experience differed vastly from that of many of her male counterparts.
  Medscape Blogs, April 21, 2022
• Episode 4: The Impact of BRCA Status on Therapy Choices   Drs Lidia Schapira and Nadine Tung discuss how BRCA status affects choosing therapy for patients with early-stage breast cancer.
  Medscape, April 12, 2022
• Breast Cancer Therapy Toxicities: Education and Communication   Drs Hope Rugo and Fatima Cardoso discuss treatment toxicities and patient communication with Julia Maués and Sheila Pettiford, who are both living with metastatic breast cancer.
  Medscape Oncology, March 31, 2022
• Episode 3: DCIS and Low-Risk, Early-Stage Breast Cancer Part 2   Drs Lidia Schapira and Antonio Wolff resume their discussion about the current research on DCIS and other forms of lower-risk early breast cancer, and how medical oncologists can work to create an optimal treatment plan.
  Medscape, March 31, 2022
• How Many Trials Does It Take to Make You Do the Right Thing? Are the radiation oncologists who are slow to adopt short-course RT for rectal cancer being prudently cautious or attentive to their own bottom line?
  Medscape Blogs, March 29, 2022
• Breast Cancer e-Tumor Boards: Case 2: Advanced Unresectable ER+/HER2- Breast Cancer   This case focuses on an 86-year-old woman with ER-positive HER2-negative locally advanced unresectable breast cancer who was referred to the molecular tumor board mainly for advice on potential actionable alterations on sequencing data.
  Medscape, March 25, 2022
• Episode 2: DCIS and Low-Risk, Early-Stage Breast Cancer   Drs Lidia Schapira and Antonio Wolff discuss the current research on DCIS and other forms of lower-risk early breast cancer, and how medical oncologists can work to create an optimal treatment plan.
  Medscape, March 15, 2022
• Episode 1: Decision-Making About Radiation in Early-Stage Breast Cancer   Drs Schapira and Gillespie begin this series by reviewing the current research on radiation options for early-stage breast cancer and how to discuss treatment options with patients.
  Medscape, March 15, 2022
• Focusing Cancer Resources After the Pandemic: Best Practices   Professor David Kerr discusses a recent article providing a clear base on which to start to rebuild health economies of low- and middle-income countries after the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Oncology, March 11, 2022
• Filling Opioid Prescriptions Akin to a Sisyphean Task In the regulatory environment of the opioid epidemic, getting opioid prescriptions filled in a timely manner with the clinician's drug of choice can feel like a Sisyphean task.
  Medscape Oncology, March 10, 2022
• Physical Activity Reduces Cognitive Decline in Breast Cancer   Dr Maurie Markman discusses a recent paper on the use of physical activity to decrease cognitive decline in patients with breast cancer.
  Medscape Oncology, March 07, 2022
• Should Physicians Run Health Departments?   Physicians are on the front lines of delivering healthcare, but does that make them effective leaders in determining health policy?
  Medscape Oncology, March 04, 2022
• Tailored Therapy in Early, High-Risk Breast Cancer: Stunning Improvements   Dr Lisa Carey discusses nuances in the use of antibody-drug conjugates in HER2-positive disease and the ongoing progress to reduce the need for chemotherapy.
  Medscape TV, February 28, 2022
• Enough Is Enough: The Pandemic and Loss of Female Oncologists The Great Resignation is having a profound effect on oncology as new doctors are losing their mentors and role models.
  Medscape Blogs, February 08, 2022
• Change Makers: Alexander Hardy on the Future of Health   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Alexander Hardy, Chief Executive Officer, Genentech, about the impact COVID-19 has had on pharmaceutical partnerships, clinical trials, disparities, and misinformation, all of which he sees as silver linings of the pandemic.
  Medscape, February 04, 2022