Video: Giving a Diagnosis of Cancer and Hope

Two breast surgeons, Dr. Beth Siegel and Dr. Deborah Axelrod, talk about what it is like to break the news to a woman that she has breast cancer.

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Most women first react with fear of losing a breast and then recognize the implications of not only a breast, but their mortality. These doctors share their own feelings and reactions as women and physicians who have to deal daily with this charged information.

About our interviewees:

Deborah Axelrod, MD, is an Associate Professor & Director of Clinical Breast Services Medical Director, Community Outreach & Education NYU Cancer Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center

Beth Siegel, MD, is an Assistant Professor & Breast Surgeon NYU Cancer Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center

This post was originally posted on BeetMedicine.TV by the site's medical director Peter Pressman, MD

Comments

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Yes, I became a member of this club in late February, 2009 and I must say that after eating, living and sleeping this disease since that time, I have come to see far too many "sisters," mostly younger than I am, with young children, passing away far, far too often and much too soon, with what appeared to be an early diagnose, and damn good prognostics. So why are they dying????????? We lose 40,000 women a year to breast cancer death. Way too many.