Considerations and Special Patients in Mammography (Live Webinar)

Course Topics:

• Understanding BRACA 1 and 2 - 50 minutes
  • What is BRACA 1 and 2
  • Treatment Before Cancer
  • Case Study and Statistics
• Breast Cancer Screening
  • Statistically: How many young women get breast cancer?
  • Most common type of breast CA in Young Women
  • Treatment Variatiations
  • Complications
  • Case Study

Course Objectives

1. Discuss BRACA 1 and 2 and what they mean
2. Identify who is at risk from the BRACA 1 or 2 gene(s)
3. Discuss the types of testing for BRACA gene(s)
4. Name at least one type of treatment that is used for women with BRACA genes that do not have cancer...yet
5. Give the statistics for getting breast cancer before the age of 40
6. Identify the most common type of breast cancer in young women
7. Describe treatment differences for young women and why some treatments are more likely to be avoided
8. Give the statistics for men getting breast cancer
9. Discuss treatment variations for men