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Paula O · 12-12-2012, 08:42 AM

Lani,

It looks like you aren't reachable with a PM--I tried. I hope I am not being too bold to ask: I wondered if you possibly would be willing to help me decipher the take away info in layman's terms on the Mini Symposium 2: Breast Density: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications. Are you a scientist? Did you listen in on that session and were you in the mentoring session that evening? I asked my questions to the medical panel during that evening mentorring session . I felt that they gave a good overview of Dr Tisty's lecture and limits in the clinical implications but honestly I could use some help making headway in understanding and explaining the charts, graphs, etc on the basic genetics, epidemilogy, and biology. I am finding it very complex and am supposed to write a 3-5 page paper about those three sessions for the Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation. Right now I am plowing through my 1 1/2 hours of fast and furious messy notetaking with the slides that are on line and looking up some past medical write ups on the implications of breast density, cancer, and survival. So far I'm not seeing any news articles about the research in that particular session to glean from but read the one that was published in November (that you posted here) about the legislation and legal mandates in some states requiring radiologists to notify women of their breast density and possible increased cancer risk. I printed out another 5-6 on-line articles on breast density to go through that I hope will be helpful in understanding the genetics and science from the symposium that I'm supposed to write about relating to breast density. Anyway, honestly alot of this stuff is above my head but I want to do a good job. I'm going to be in contact with a doc from the medical panel that have made themselves available to mentor us some in these write ups after I do some more work on my own but wondered if you could give me a hand on this as well before I contact them or point me to articles maybe I am not seeing that were written up after the 2012 symposium putting it into more understandable terms?

Of course no problem or pressure if it doesn't work out for you to help me--I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask and I would certainly appreciate it very much if you are able to give me a hand with understanding this better.
Thanks,

Paula

12-12-2012, 08:42 AM	#27
Paula O Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 954	Re: Sabcs 2012 Lani, It looks like you aren't reachable with a PM--I tried. I hope I am not being too bold to ask: I wondered if you possibly would be willing to help me decipher the take away info in layman's terms on the Mini Symposium 2: Breast Density: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications. Are you a scientist? Did you listen in on that session and were you in the mentoring session that evening? I asked my questions to the medical panel during that evening mentorring session . I felt that they gave a good overview of Dr Tisty's lecture and limits in the clinical implications but honestly I could use some help making headway in understanding and explaining the charts, graphs, etc on the basic genetics, epidemilogy, and biology. I am finding it very complex and am supposed to write a 3-5 page paper about those three sessions for the Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation. Right now I am plowing through my 1 1/2 hours of fast and furious messy notetaking with the slides that are on line and looking up some past medical write ups on the implications of breast density, cancer, and survival. So far I'm not seeing any news articles about the research in that particular session to glean from but read the one that was published in November (that you posted here) about the legislation and legal mandates in some states requiring radiologists to notify women of their breast density and possible increased cancer risk. I printed out another 5-6 on-line articles on breast density to go through that I hope will be helpful in understanding the genetics and science from the symposium that I'm supposed to write about relating to breast density. Anyway, honestly alot of this stuff is above my head but I want to do a good job. I'm going to be in contact with a doc from the medical panel that have made themselves available to mentor us some in these write ups after I do some more work on my own but wondered if you could give me a hand on this as well before I contact them or point me to articles maybe I am not seeing that were written up after the 2012 symposium putting it into more understandable terms? Of course no problem or pressure if it doesn't work out for you to help me--I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask and I would certainly appreciate it very much if you are able to give me a hand with understanding this better. Thanks, Paula