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ADVANCEMENTS IN BREAST CANCER CARE Understanding All The Options Can Be Empowering For Patients
Dr. Kishore Dass and Dr. Alicia Gittleman at the GenesisCare Radiation Oncology Center in Wellington.
GenesisCare’s Dr. Alicia Gittleman completed her internship at Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center, her residency at NYU Medical Center and her fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical College. Practicing in Wellington and Palm Beach County for the past 27 years, Dr. Kishore Dass was chief resident at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and furthered his training at the University of Pennsylvania, NIH.
If you are one of the nearly 287,850 women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer this year, or one of the additional 51,400 diagnosed with non-invasive breast cancer, understanding your options can be empowering. Here, local experts Dr. Kishore Dass and Dr. Alicia Gittleman, board-certified radiation oncologists with GenesisCare, answer common questions about this important topic. What is the general outlook on breast cancer today? Being diagnosed with breast cancer today is not what it once was.Thanks to advancements in treatment, patients are living longer, healthier lives than ever before.According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer death rates have decreased between 2013 to 2018, likely due to treatment advancements and diseases caught earlier. wellington the magazine | july 2022 39