Breast health
Date Published:
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Duration:
36:23
Dr Erica Whineray Kelly talks about breast health in New Zealand. Erica is an oncoplastic breast cancer surgeon and advocate based in Auckland, New Zealand. Erica co-founded and is the Managing Director of both Auckland Breast Centre (ABC) and Focus Radiotherapy.
Topics:
- Decreasing risk of breast cancer across your lifespan.
- How much exercise should teenage women be getting.
- Screening: Māori females and pregnant women have a higher rate of breast cancer.
- Screening and imaging and new technologies available.
- Breast self-examination- how effective is it?
- Changes in more preoperative neo-adjunctive chemotherapy.
- Gene testing for breast cancer.
- MHT post breast cancer.
- Struggling with breast feeding.
- What else is on the horizon for breast health?
Take home messages
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Resources
- BreastScreen Aotearoa
- Increasing the uptake of breast screening - bpacnz (2011)
- 3D mammogram overview - Mayo Clinic
- What is FRA-BOC? Cancer Australia
Presenter
Dr Erica Whineray Kelly
Breast Cancer Surgeon
Auckland Breast Centre
To contact Erica Click here.
This presentation is intended for qualified health practitioners professional development and should not be relied upon for any other purpose. Any opinions offered are those of the presenter or other speaker and do not necessarily represent the views of Goodfellow Unit.