Weill Cornell Medicine's Women's Health Advisor (WHA)

Volume 23 • Number 7 • July 2019

Treatments Focus on Preventing, as Well as Curing, Breast Cancer

It’s not surprising that breast cancer is a major health concern of women: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in American women, second only to skin cancers. However, thanks to medical advances, death rates from female breast cancer dropped 40 percent between 1989 and 2016. One reason for lower mortality …

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Editor-in-Chief

Orli R. Etingin, MD Director, Iris Cantor Women's Health Center; Vice Chairman, Dept. of Medicine; Professor of Clinical Medicine; Weill Cornell Medical College

Executive Editor

Dawn Bialy

Associate Editors

Kate Brophy, Jay Roland

Contributers

Jim Brown, Heidi Godman

Editorial Support

Weill Cornell Public Affairs

Group Director

Diane Muhlfeld

Advisory Board

Erica Jones, MD Richard Granstein, MD Diane S. Berson, MD Andrew Martorella, MD Ira Jacobson, MD Ellen Scherl, MD Veronica Lofaso, MD Margaret Polanecky, MD Shari Midoneck, MD Nancy Nealon, MD Barbra Heller, RD Anne Moore, MD Minna Fyer, MD Ruth Rosenblatt, MD Linda Russell, MD Lisa Callahan, MD