| "Informed
Choices" is Caucus: New Jersey's multi-part public
television series aimed at providing the information you
need to make informed health care decisions for you and
your family.
On this installment of the series, we discuss the importance
of breast health and young women and offer options in terms
of both treatment and prevention. While a breast cancer
diagnosis is life altering to women of all ages, the impact
of this diagnosis on younger women can be particularly devastating
as they struggle with multiple roles of wife, mother and
professional. Diagnosing breast cancer in younger women
can be more difficult because their breast tissue is often
thicker than the breast tissue of an older women, thus by
the time a lump can be felt it is often large and advanced
enough to lower her chances of survival.
This program brings together experts from the LIFE Center
at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, a young breast cancer
survivor, and an education coordinator from the Susan G.
Komen Foundation Breast Cancer Foundation-North Jersey Affiliate
whose ultimate goal lies in lowering breast cancer mortality
rates in our communities.
Linda Patrick-Miller
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Maike Stenhull |
Deborah Toppmeyer
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Barbara Waters
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