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Military health care professionals will meet in San Diego Sept. 15-17 to discuss integrated approaches to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.
Dr. Sue Bailey, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, and other senior DoD health officials and the service surgeons general, are slated to speak at the conference. Several breast cancer survivors also are scheduled to share their treatment experiences.
Medics from DoD health care facilities worldwide will discuss a range of patient treatment models and learn firsthand about new ways to provide breast health care. Innovations they'll learn about include:
They'll learn about including psychological counseling during initial breast cancer assessments. And they'll hear from specialists on chemotherapy, post-mastectomy radiation and prophylactic surgery.
The lifetime risk of developing breast cancer has gone from one case in every 20 women two decades ago to one in eight women today, according to health care officials. They said 350,000 women in the active and reserve military today make breast cancer an important readiness issue.
The military health system cares for more than 2 million women - - in uniform and family members -- who are age 30 or older, the group most at risk of developing breast cancer. The fiscal 1998 defense health plan allocated $25 million for breast cancer prevention, education and diagnosis.
Story by Douglas J. Gillert, American Forces Press Service
| Date Taken: | 08.04.1998 |
| Date Posted: | 07.04.2025 00:34 |
| Story ID: | 529316 |
| Location: | WASHINGTON, US |
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