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Publication Date: October 05, 2023
By: NWHN Staff
Key Details
July 14 2023 via Zoom
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
Published for Your Health Unlocked:
October 5, 2023
According to the CDC, about 264,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women each year in the United States. When detected early, breast cancer can have a five-year survival rate of 99%, but when detected at a late stage and after it has spread to other parts of the body, five-year survival is under 30%.
And yet, despite the great outlook if detected early, breast cancer is being diagnosed late and killing thousands of people who could have survived.
During the Find It Early Webinar, nationally esteemed health experts will be discussing:
Keynote Speaker
DeLauro introduced the Find It Early Act earlier this year. This is federal legislation that, if passed into law, would ensure all health insurance plans cover screening and diagnostic mammograms and breast ultrasounds and MRIs at no cost to the health care consumer. She’ll be speaking more about the bill and what we can do as citizens to see it passed.
Executive Director of DenseBreast-info.org
Panelist
Pushkin has written dozens of educational courses, articles, grants, and speeches on the topic of breast density and its relationship to breast cancer risk. She learned of her own breast density’s masking effect on her mammogram after finding a palpable lump that went undetected by mammography several years in a row. Ms. Pushkin’s advocacy has helped see many state and federal laws passed that have increased access to high-quality breast cancer screening services, such as NYS’s Breast Density Inform bill and the FDA’s Mammography Quality Standards Act. She will be speaking about breast cancer risk, costs, patient and provider advocacy, and barriers to high-quality breast cancer screening and care.
Executive Director of The National Women’s Health Network
Panelist
Hyater-Lindenmuth is a public health expert and the former Executive Director for the American Cancer Society. She received a crash course in this issue when she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer by chance in 2011. Although she’d been dutifully getting mammograms for years, it was self-detection that brought her into the exam room after an unrelated Achilles tendon injury caused her to contort in a resting position that helped her feel a hard-to-find lump. She will be speaking about her lived experience as a breast cancer survivor, the risks and access barriers to preventative cancer care specific to BIPOC people, and the importance of diversity in clinical cancer trials.