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Episode 272: Saving Lives: Decades of Progress for Breast Cancer Survival
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English - April 01, 2024 10:00 - 22 minutes - 30.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Society & Culture breast cancer susan g. komen metastatic cancer research mammogram triple negative race for the cure invasive ductal carcinoma genetic testing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We still have a long way to go to conquer breast cancer, but we have made some big advances that are saving lives and making a difference. A new modeling study has recently published that the mortality rate for U.S. women with breast cancer decreased an estimated 58 percent between 1975 and 2019. Joining us on today’s show is Jennifer Caswell-Jin, MD who is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Standford Medicine, a former Komen grantee specializing in breast cancer care and research and a lead author on the study that published these findings. Dr. Caswell-Jin will help us understand why the mortality rate has gone down, the barriers that exist in getting the rate down further and what the future of breast cancer advancement looks like from her perspective.