Tag Archive | breast cancer
Genetic Risk for Breast Cancer and the Case for Prophylactic Mastectomies
Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy sheds light on the difficult choice facing women at genetic risk for breast cancer.
LabBook 9/7/2012
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. THIS […]
What We Don’t Talk about When We Don’t Talk about Sex
By Tiffani Washington Chances are you don’t spend much time, if any, sharing the intimate details of your sex life with your doctor. Though the topic is difficult to avoid when walking past a newsstand or watching any given hour of primetime TV, sex remains a matter of great sensitivity in our personal lives. Approaching […]
Breast Cancer in Isolation
Loneliness can be deadly. In humans, there is a statistical relationship between social interaction and mortality – the more isolated you are, the lower your chances of living a long life. Rats kept in social isolation their entire life die at a younger age than littermates who lived in groups closer to their natural social […]
Disparities Across the Ocean and Next Door
Like the rest of campus, the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics seminar series is on spring break, resuming in early April with a talk from provocative economist Richard Epstein. So now’s a good chance to get caught up on the previous quarter’s seminars, covering topics under the umbrella of health disparities from the biological […]
Linkage 3/18: Match Day, Podcast #0.3, and More
Yesterday wasn’t just St. Patrick’s Day for fourth-year medical students around the country – it was also Match Day, the tense and celebratory day when aspiring doctors learn the residency program where they will spend their next 3-7 years. At the Pritzker School of Medicine, green-clad students and supporters absolutely packed the hospital’s Billings Auditorium […]
Sex and the Female Cancer Survivor
By Dianna Douglas If your oncologist is worried about your sex life, you’re probably a man. Stacy Lindau, associate professor of obstetrics/gynecology and geriatrics, has been researching how often women get help for sexual problems after surviving cancer, and the data are grim. Almost none of the women in her study got treatment, and half […]
An Ethical Indictment on Disparities
Steve Whitman joked that he didn’t know much about ethics. But he was deadly serious about the numbers on racial health disparities and their ethical consequences presented in his Oct. 27 talk for the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics seminar series. Extrapolating his data regarding the gap in health outcomes between whites and blacks […]
A New Field of Geriatric Oncology, Under Construction
Creating a new research field doesn’t happen overnight. It requires bringing together like-minded researchers willing to push out into the unknown, funding agencies willing to be convinced that the new field is worth of grant dollars, and some semblance of an overall plan so that those efforts and dollars are put to optimal use. Soldering […]
