Session: Breast cancer surveillance and chemoprevention

Speakers: Jennie Yoon, MD; Victoria Seewaldt, MD

This 90-minute concurrent session will focus on high-risk breast surveillance and chemoprevention options for breast cancer risk management and reduction.
Drs. Yoon and Seewaldt will discuss:

• current guidelines for breast cancer screening in high-risk women
• sensitivity and specificity of different breast cancer screening modalities
• mammography, MRI, ultrasound and other imaging techniques
• Evidence of benefit of Breast Self Exam for high-risk women and proper technique for performing BSE
• Emerging technologies for Breast cancer Screening
• chemoprevention options available for breast cancer risk reduction
• benefits and limitations of breast chemoprevention
• chemoprevention options available through clinical trials
• research on emerging and new chemoprevention medications

This session is appropriate for:

• women who carry a BRCA mutation or who are high risk for breast cancer
• breast cancer survivors concerned about risk in their remaining breast tissue
• spouses, partners, loved ones of cancer survivors or previvors
• health care providers who provide care to survivors and previvors
• social workers/mental health care professionals who treat survivors and previvors
  

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