Registration open for May 15 Stanford Women's Health Forum

- By Sara Wykes

Susan Love

Renowned breast cancer specialist Susan Love, MD, will be the keynote speaker May 15 at the fourth annual Stanford Women’s Health Forum.

Her talk will be titled “A Future Without Breast Cancer: Where Are We and What Can We Do.”

Love, who served on the National Cancer Advisory Board, is a clinical professor of surgery at UCLA and president of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation. She also is author of the top-selling Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book, now in its fifth edition. After years as a patient advocate, she faced her own illness: a diagnosis last year of acute myelogenous leukemia. She has since received a bone marrow transplant from her sister.

The recently established Stanford Center for Health Research on Women & Sex Differences in Medicine is presenting the afternoon-long forum.

Previous health forums have been “an opportunity for people in the community to learn about important medical issues affecting women and about the groundbreaking research done at Stanford,” said Lynn Westphal, MD, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and co-director of the center. “At this year’s forum, anyone who has been touched by cancer, either personally or through a loved one, will benefit from the discussions.”

Other speakers at the forum will discuss a variety of topics, including breast cancer diagnosis, risk and surgery; headaches during sexual activity; contraception; cancer survivorship; lung cancer in nonsmokers; cancer-related sleep problems; weight-loss diets; colorectal screening and cancer; facial rejuvenation; and sunscreen and skin cancer prevention. Among the Stanford speakers will be headache specialist Robert Cowan, MD, clinical professor of neurology and neurological sciences; oncology professor Mark Pegram, MD, who directs Stanford’s breast cancer program; and nutrition researcher Christopher Gardner, PhD, associate professor of medicine.

The event, which will take place at the Arrillaga Alumni Center, is free, but seating is limited. To register, visit http://tinyurl.com/womens-health-via-StanfordWSDM. Organizers plan to post more event details on the center’s website at http://womenshealth.stanford.edu. Videos of the talks will be posted on the website following the event.

The forum is sponsored by Graniterock, a Watsonville-based company that supplies concrete and building and road materials.

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