Breast cancer affects one in eight women during their lifetimes.  However, the incidence of more aggressive cancers and the occurrence of breast cancer in women less than 45 years of age is disturbingly more prevalent in the African American community. One aggressive form of cancer is “triple negative” breast cancer, which occurs twice as often in African Americans. Coupled with later-stage diagnosis, the mortality rate of breast cancer in African American women is 33% to 36% higher than the general population.

Please join us for a question-and-answer session with a panel of community leaders, cancer survivors and health care professionals.  We encourage you to participate and become an informed messenger to our community about the risks of this disease, strategies for early detection and potential cures for breast cancer.

Host:
Linda Torrance
Director, Community Relations/Public Service, Fox 5WAGA
Atlanta; member, Rollins School of Public Health Council

Special Guests:
Karen W. Neely, Esq.
Associate with Powell Goldstein LLP’s Labor, Employment and Immigration Practice Group; “triple negative” breast cancer survivor; CEO, Triple Pink Foundation, Inc.
Eric R. Beverly
Co-founder of the Eric R. Beverly Foundation; husband of a three-time breast cancer survivor; retired 10-year NFL veteran

Speakers and Panelists:
Harvey Bumpers, MD
Surgical Oncology, Grady Memorial Hospital
Sheryl Gabram-Mendola, MD, MBA, FACS
Surgical Oncology, Emory Winship Cancer Institute
Karen Godette, MD
Radiation Oncology, Emory Crawford Long Hospital
Mary Newell, MD
Breast Imaging, Emory Winship Cancer Institute
Ruth O’Regan, MD
Medical Oncology, Emory Winship Cancer Institute
Rogsbert Phillips, MD
Surgical Oncology, Emory Crawford Long Hospital
Diane Senior-Crosby, NP
Georgia Cancer Center for Excellence at Grady Health System
Amelia Zelnak, MD
Medical Oncology, Emory Winship Cancer Institute