In this video, Dr. Anees Chagpar answers popular students questions from learners in her Coursera course, Introduction to Breast Cancer. If you are enrolled in Dr. Chagpar's online class, we hope you find these questions and answers beneficial to your understanding of breast cancer. If you are not enrolled in the class, we encourage you to check out the course here:
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You can find the questions covered in the video and their corresponding references below:
Q1: How are patient’s impacted knowing breast cancer is heritable? Is an individual better prepared in facing the high possibility of cancer than someone who has never experienced or known they were susceptible to cancer?
Q1 REFERENCES
• COURSE VIDEO: Interview with Erin Hofstatter
Q2: Have you found that patients you see in your clinic are in general more knowledgeable than before the widespread access to online media? If yes, is this a good or a bad thing?
Q3: In the clinical trials, new therapies were tested against the standard therapies. How do these treatments compare to those who reject medical treatment and chose to treat breast cancer with diet and exercise? How to all these groups – New Therapy, Standard Therapy, No/Natural Therapy - compare to the survival rates of those who never had breast cancer?
Q3 REFERENCES
• NSABP B-20
• WIN Study
• COURSE VIDEO: Clinical Trials
• clinicaltrials.gov
• BWEL Study
• nccn.org
Q4: Does physical therapy have any role in the management of breast cancer especially following surgery like in the case of lumpectomy?
Q5: Can you elaborate on Proton Therapy?
Q5 REFERENCES
• Proton Therapy Clinical Trials
• COURSE VIDEO: Radiation
Q6: Do cannabinoids inhibit tumor growth? What is Marijuana’s potential for alternative and effective clinical trials for breast cancer?
