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7th Annual Allison Taylor Holbrooks/Barbara Jo Johnson
Breast Cancer Conference:
"Finding Answers to Your Questions"
The 7th Annual Allison Taylor Holbrooks/Barbara Jo Johnson Breast Cancer Conference, sponsored by the Northern California Cancer Center, was held on March 1, 2008 in San Francisco. The conference provided updated information about breast cancer treatment and quality of life issues to 180 attendees. Sixteen faculty from nine agencies and twenty exhibitors from throughout the Bay Area were on hand to answer questions, provide resource information and services, and to help identify additional issues to be addressed at future programs. Topics for the general session included clinical updates, genetics and family risk, health changes and the challenge of change in each of our lives, and personal perspectives about living with this disease – the perspectives of both a mother and a daughter.
The morning session was audiotaped and is available for viewing below.
The breakout sessions addressed treatment of DCIS, reconstructive surgery, young women’s issues, caregiving and caregivers, living with metastatic disease, estate planning 101, managing treatment side effects, a medical panel to address questions, and a seminar about menopause, hormones, sexuality and urogenital changes. The breakout sessions were not audiotaped.
General Session Topics
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Sherrie Wilkins
Mother and Breast Cancer Survivor
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"Living in the Present"
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Judy Luce, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCCC Board of Trustees
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"Clinical Updates"
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Patricia Kelly, PhD
Medical Geneticist, Private Practice
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"Understanding Genetics and Family Risk"
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Amy Wilkins
Student and daughter of Breast Cancer Survivor
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"A Daughter’s Perspective"
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William Stewart, MD
Medical Director, Health & Healing Institute, California Pacific Medical Center
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"Health and the Challenge of Change"
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Presentations audiotaped by Direct Health Media.
This conference was sponsored by Northern California Cancer Center and the Allison Taylor Holbrooks Breast Cancer Research Fund. Co-sponsors included Stanford Cancer Center and California Pacific Medical Center/St. Luke’s Hospital. Community partners included the Association of Northern California Oncologists, Breast Cancer Connections (formerly Community Breast Health Project), Palo Alto Medical Foundation, San Francisco Bay Area Oncology Nursing Society, The Health Library at Stanford University, the Marin Cancer Institute, and the Wellness Community/San Francisco-East Bay.
Next year's 9th Annual Breast Cancer Conference is scheduled for Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the Presidio of San Francisco. If you would like to be added to the list for 2009 conference, please contact NCCC Community Education at education@nccc.org.
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