Session: Young women's workshop

Speaker: Susan Domchek, MD and Suzanne O'Neill, PhD

This 90-minute concurrent session will provide information for and take a problem-
solving approach to address issues specifically for previvors and high-risk
women who are age 35 or younger. Presenters will discuss:

• risk management options for young women
• emerging information about risk-management and timing in young women
• coping with risk without being overhwelmed
• the importance of finding peer support
• approaches to fitting BRCA and risk-management into career and family planning
• dating and associated challenges for young survivors and previvors
  

This session is appropriate for:

• women who carry a BRCA mutation
• women with hereditary breast cancer in their family
• relatives/loved ones/caretakers for young women with breast cancer
• patient advocates, support group facilitators, and people who work with high-risk women
• health care providers who treat high-risk women
• social workers/mental health care professionals who treat high-risk women

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