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show first aired October 23, 2008
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There’s probably no scientific way to figure out how many lives National Breast Cancer Awareness Month has saved over the past twenty years, but as long as we think it helps, we’ll keep talking. On today’s Health Show, we’ll continue our conversation with a medical oncologist about the very latest treatments for breast cancer. We’ll also hear about Chemo-Brain...and what’s being done to help patients see through the fog created by their treatment. And we’ll hear about a program designed to help people who at one time would have died, live with cancer.
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SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW WITH THE BREAST CANCER?
If you caught the program last week, you heard a detailed conversation about breast cancer. October, of course is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month...and this year we are focusing our coverage on what’s new. Last week it was risk and detection. This week, we’ll continue with treatment and aftercare. Here with us again is Dr. Janet Gargiulo, a medical oncologist at New York Oncology Hematology in Latham, New York. We pick up the conversation with Dr. Gargiulo as it turns to surgery.
Chemo - Brain?
Many cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy describe unsettling changes to the memory and concentration. Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center say this phenomenon is very real, and as we heard from Dr. Gargiulo, is even has a name: Chemo brain. Here’s Andi McDonnell with more.
You've Survived Cancer! Now What?
As we’ve heard over the past two weeks, Cancer research is making great strides...so much so that survival rates are up for many cancers that were once considered a death sentence. The Health Show’s Susan Barnett reports on a program that offers an important part of recovery – someone to talk to.
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