Treating Cancers of the Breast and Prostate at Jefferson
At Jefferson, our cancer specialists take comprehensive approaches to breast cancer and prostate cancer, as Jackie Roth and Jim Eisenhardt can both attest.
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Jefferson — Closer Than You Think
The quality care for which Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals are recognized may now be closer to home than you realize.
Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer Not Linked To Higher Risk of Cardiovascular Death
Hormone therapy – androgen deprivation therapy – for men with prostate cancer lowers the risk of death from the cancer and does not significantly increase the cardiovascular death risk, a study and editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association report.
Get Your Breast Cancer Questions Answered By Jefferson Breast Care Experts
What is triple negative breast cancer? How is my family history related to my risk of breast cancer? How do I do a breast self exam? Each year more than 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Screening and self exams are critical to catching cancer early when patients have more treatment options. A diagnosis more »
Jackie Shares Her ‘I Can’ Story On Beating Breast Cancer
Jackie was speechless when she learned she had breast cancer. But what she didn’t expect was the help of Jefferson breast care coordinator Rita, who got Jackie right back on track with her chemo and radiation when a job layoff threatened to interrupt her follow-up treatments.