Tag: breast cancer

How Do I Get My Patients to Stop Avoiding Their Mammograms?

By: Vyshnavi Manda
Date: October 30, 2019
Category: Uncategorized
Filed under: breast cancer, mammogram, patient avoidance, Patient Engagement, screening, screening rates

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and a perfect time for organizations to reexamine their screening protocols and how they encourage this service among patients. This is especially important, because improving screening rates helps facilitate early detection of breast cancer, which greatly improves their odds of beating the condition. While the U.S. Preventive Services Task […]

Saturation Genome Editing: Can it Determine Breast Cancer Risk?

By: Bob Modlinski
Date: November 5, 2018
Category: Cost & Quality
Filed under: BRCA 1, breast cancer, cancer risk, genome editing

Just in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a recently published study by cancer researchers at the University of Washington has appeared to do something that no one or organization has done before: Given physicians, patients, and the general public a list of which BRCA1 gene variants are deemed safe and which can potentially cause […]