The Courier-Post published an article focusing on three South Jersey doctors on the front lines in the battle again breast cancer. Generosa Grana, MD, Director of the Cooper Cancer Institute, was featured in the article that described the progress that has been made in breast cancer treatments and what the future holds.
“We no longer think of it as one disease, but a series of diseases that has different biological features and should be treated differently,” she explained. “We are really making great strides with drugs that are specifically targeted toward defeating certain cancers. ”
She also discussed advances in prevention, which starts with identifying patients who are at an increased risk and goes from there. A family history is often determined and genetic testing is performed when appropriate.
“This has been a continuum of building on advances in the 1980s,” Grana said. “We stopped doing radical mastectomies and moved to modified ones, and then lumpectomies and removal of sentinel lymph nodes.”