Our patient booklet, DCIS: What You Need to Know, helps women diagnosed with DCIS understand the difference between DCIS and Stage 1 breast cancer, and discuss treatment options with their doctor. It was funded by a grant from the DC Cancer Consortium through the Department of Health, Government of the District of Columbia, with additional support from the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation.
June 25, 2014 Thank you for the opportunity to speak today on behalf of the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund. My name is Dr. Anna Mazzucco, and after completing my Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard Medical School I conducted research at the National Cancer Institute. I speak from those perspectives today. Our […]
To view letter, click here. February 19, 2014 The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Hubert H. Humphrey Building 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 120F Washington, DC 20201 Dear Secretary Sebelius: We are writing to ask your Department to clearly define a comprehensive tobacco cessation benefit in the Affordable Care Act regulations or, […]
To view invitation as PDF, click here. The National Research Center for Women & Families Cordially Invites You to Our 2014 Foremother Awards and Health Policy Hero Luncheon Friday, May 9, 2014 at Noon The Mayflower Hotel 1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Join ABC7/WJLA’s Maureen Bunyan, our Mistress of Ceremonies, on May 9th, the Friday before […]
A video of this groundbreaking conference is available.
For our in-depth article on lung cancer screening, click here. By Tiffanie L. Hammond, Amrita Ford, MA, and Anna E. Mazzucco, Ph.D. January 2014 Lung cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in both men and women in the U.S., but it is the #1 cancer killer. In 2013, approximately 228,000 men and […]