BRCA Genes: Knowledge Improves Outcomes Highlights

Panelists from the ‘Considering BRCA Genes: Knowledge Improves Outcomes’ event, hosted by the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, discuss a wide range of topics, including cancer risks associated with BRCA, new advances in the field and more. The panel includes moderator Larisa Kura, breast cancer survivor and associate dean of administration and finance for the UCSF School of Dentistry; Heather Greenwood, MD, event chairperson and assistant professor in breast imaging at UCSF; Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS, president of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; Pamela Munster, MD, director of the Early Phase Clinical Trials Unit and co-leader of the Center for BRCA Research; Mindy Goldman, MD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UCSF; and Laura Holmes Haddad, breast cancer survivor and author of “This is Cancer: Everything You Need to Know from the Waiting Room to the Bedroom.”