Participants at the Fifth Annual Dubin Breast Center Fact vs. Fiction Luncheon and Symposium included, from left: Sally Wolf, patient speaker; panelists Elisa Port, MD, FACS; Michael Brodman, MD; Laurie Margolies, MD, FACR; Jeffrey Mechanick, MD; Amy Tiersten, MD; and Mark Sultan, MD, FACS; Eva Andersson-Dubin, MD, Founder of the Dubin Breast Center and a Mount Sinai Trustee; and moderator Perri Peltz.
Is a mastectomy preferable to a lumpectomy? Can breast implants cause cancer? These were among the questions asked by attendees at the Fifth Annual Dubin Breast Center Fact vs. Fiction Luncheon and Symposium held in 2016, an informative event that sets the record straight on the myths surrounding breast cancer.
A panel of physicians from the Dubin Breast Center of The Tisch Cancer Institute and other departments within the Mount Sinai Health System addressed more than 130 guests on issues concerning breast health and cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
With Perri Peltz, host of “Doctor Radio Reports,” a weekly public health program, serving as moderator, the Mount Sinai experts cleared up any doubts as to whether implants cause breast cancer—they do not—and explained that after consulting with their physicians, most women have a choice between a mastectomy and a lumpectomy. The physicians also discussed what happens when patients find themselves in the challenging situation of becoming pregnant, after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis.
The panelists represented breast surgery, medical oncology, breast cancer clinical research, breast imaging, precision medicine and obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive health. They were: Elisa Port, MD, FACS, Co-Director, Dubin Breast Center, Chief of Breast Surgery; Michael Brodman, MD, Professor and Chairman, Ellen and Howard C. Katz Chairman’s Chair, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science; Jeffrey Mechanick, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Director of Metabolic Support, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease; Mark Sultan, MD, FACS, Co-Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery; Laurie Margolies, MD, FACR, Chief, Breast Imaging; and Amy Tiersten, MD, Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology).
To view the event, go to https://philanthropy.mountsinai.org/video.