Prevention

National Breast Cancer Coalition has issued a response to Angelina Jolie's news of her recent prophylactic double mastectomy due to her inherited risk factors.

HIP-C, a group involving Cuyahoga County Board of Health and Cleveland Department of Public Health recently completed its Community Health Status Assessment Report.  The report is packed with helpful information about the status of public health and disease, illness and death prevention inthe city and county.

The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) is being held Dec. 4 - 8, 2012.  We'll update the blog with some highlights as they develop.

Molecular Assays

The Affordable Care Act has made historic changes that improve women's health coverage.  Historically, women in the US haven't always had equal access to affordable coverage for essential women's health services.

The ACA has made great strides in providing women equal access to the health care services they need, a huge victory for women in the U.S.   The ACA has made changes already to improve access to affordable coverage for women and more changes will come in 2014. 

National Breast Cancer Coalition president Fran Visco appears in The Daily Beast to talk about advocacy, research and why we need a different approach to end breast cancer.  As usual, she's right.

A recent study conducted by the University of Rochester Medical Center showed a strong link between Vitamin D deficiency and breast cancer progression. The close correlation between low Vitamin D levels and tumor progression is strong enough to recommend oncologists monitor the levels in patients as they undergo treatment.

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http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/index.cfm?id=3182