Join Providence Cancer Institute, Pink Lemonade Project and the Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance for a free virtual event: Lobular Breast Cancer: Exploring Current Knowledge and Advancing Understanding of This Understudied Disease.
Event details
When: Wednesday, October 15, 6:00-7:30 pm
Where: Online via Zoom
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Providence medical breast oncologist Sasha Stanton, M.D., Ph.D. will focus on general breast cancer cases and lobular cancer and will also present data on the development of a lobular prevention vaccine. You will also hear from Laurie Burgess Hutcheson, Executive Director of the LBCA and learn more about how they are raising awareness and supporting patients.
About Sasha Stanton, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Stanton is a physician scientist with expertise in breast cancer and extensive training in molecular genetics and immunotherapy. Currently, she leads the Cancer Immunoprevention Laboratory at the Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, a Providence Center of Excellence for immuno-oncology and cellular therapy. She is also a practicing physician at Providence and is board-certified in medical oncology and internal medicine.
Dr. Stanton became interested in breast cancer after witnessing its devastation among friends and family. When she started taking care of patients with cancer, she saw unmet needs that more targeted therapies given earlier in the disease could address. She decided to focus on translational breast cancer research in the emerging field of immuno-oncology.
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