“Based on our 20 years’ experience working with families with cancer-predisposing mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2, it is time to offer genetic screening of these genes to every woman, at about age 30, in the course of routine medical care.” A recommendation to screen all women, around age 30, for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations? “many women with...
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It’s TIME! Today is the first day of the “leading patient-centered conference on emerging technology andmedicine” the 2014 Stanford Medicine X Conference. For four days, patients, business leaders in new technology, health care professionals mingle, share, explore and learn from each other in amazing surroundings. It’s Silicon...
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When Peter Devereaux learned he had breast cancer, he was dumbfounded. He wrote in 2009, “It was the first time I knew I had breasts….It is such a weird ordeal not only to have cancer, but to also have a women’s cancer.” Devereaux, like many others with male breast cancer, was caught at a late stage- 3b- in 2008. In 2009, before he’d...
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In the Beginning Feeling alone in your life journey–with illness as your companion—can make the burden of chronic disease seem unbearable. As Kerri Sparling writes, “For much of my life, I was the only diabetic I knew…. Where were all the people who were living with this disease, like I have been since I was a little girl? Was I the only...
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Losing The Man Who Helped Us Laugh The news that beloved actor and comedian Robin Williams killed himself should jar us from complacently accepting the status quo of mental healthcare in the US. His suicide also exposes the stigma of mental illness. In 2006, during an interview on “Fresh Air,” Williams’ responded to Terry...
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