The remnant of that dream is a vibraphone in his office in Memorial's new 16-story breast cancer center.
Winer, director of the Breast Oncology Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
"That is absolutely the case, " agrees Dr. Ann Partridge, clinical director of the Breast Oncology Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who also does research on improving health care communication.
"These are among the most significant findings in drugs for metastatic cancer in the past five years, " said Eric Winer, director of the breast oncology center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, who wasn't directly involved in the trials.
But the drug's potential to prevent cancer can far outweigh the small chance that a woman will be harmed by side effects, said Dr. George Peters, executive director of the University of Texas Southwestern Center for Breast Care, whose center participated in the original tamoxifen study.
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"Those who diagnose breast cancer and those who do mastectomy are separate from the plastic surgeons who do the reconstruction, " explains Dr. Frank DellaCroce, a surgeon at the Center for Restorative Breast Surgery in New Orleans, Louisiana, the place where Anderson's breast reconstruction was performed.
"To specifically overcome resistance to hormone treatment that's sort of a paradigm change, " said Gabriel Hortobagyi, head of breast oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and lead author of Bolero-2.
Dr. John Kiluk, a breast cancer surgeon at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, said he's startled by the common threads among the group.
Larry Norton sees some of the toughest cases as deputy physician-in-chief for breast cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
"That led to the idea that one could give most or all of the radiation closer to the original tumor bed and that would solve the problem, " says George Sledge, a past president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and co-director of the breast-cancer program at Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, in Indianapolis.
"At this point, any breast cancer does need to be removed, " says Bhuvaneswari Ramaswamy, a breast cancer researcher at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in Columbus, Ohio.
Five thousand vendors, who peddle everything on Ebay from 270hp Yamaha jet boats and Louis XVI domed canopy beds to breast-enhancement pills, gathered at the Anaheim Convention Center, not far from Disneyland, over the first weekend of summer.
"When you can tell me which cancers need to be treated and which don't, then I will consider this argument" about overdiagnosis, says Clifford Hudis, chief of the Breast Cancer Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
On Thursday, her doctor, Lisa Carey of the University of North Carolina Medical Center, described Edwards' condition as Stage IV metastatic breast cancer, meaning the cancer has spread beyond her breast and lymph nodes.
Ramirez, a foremost expert in cancer health disparities research at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has made great strides to reduce Latina breast cancer, increase screening rates and more.
That was the news over the weekend from the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Boston, where a team of researchers from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City and the University of Kansas Medical Center presented evidence demonstrating the effects of aspirin against two types of breast cancer.
They preach "breast awareness" instead, said Dr. Therese Bevers, medical director of the center's Cancer Prevention Center.
"We did find that women who lived in the South and areas of high solar radiation have reduced risk of breast cancer, " said John, who is based at the Northern California Cancer Center in Union City, California.
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