• Press Release

Dr. Elisa Port and Dr. George Raptis: “What Women Need To Know About Preventing And Treating Breast Cancer”

  • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  • New York, NY
  • (July 05, 2011)

Compared to other forms of cancer, breast cancer gets a lot of attention. But that attention is well-deserved, because the chances of a woman developing breast cancer are greater than nearly any other form of cancer. "People forget that one of the unique aspects of breast cancer is the fact that most women do have a choice," says Dr. Elisa Port, co-director of the Dubin Breast Center of The Tisch Cancer Institute at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. They have a choice between lumpectomy and mastectomy, and oftentimes those choices are very equal – and that's just one example." Learn more


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