Screening, Science and Support — A Jewish Response to Breast Cancer

Sunday, January 28, 2007, 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
RCWJDS, Multi-Purpose Room, 800 Foster City Blvd, Foster City (map)
Cost: $5 in advance; $10 at the door
For more information, contact the North Peninsula office, 650.349.1523, northpen@sfjcf.org

• Register online

Join us for an intimate exchange of professional insights and personal experiences to build your awareness about genetic risk factors, cutting-edge screening techniques and proactive steps to take that may diminish the impact of breast cancer for yourself and your family. The program will feature leading medical professionals and inspirational survivors.

Featured speakers:

• Dr. Harriet Borofsky
  Director of breast imaging, Mills-Peninsula Health Services
• Kerry Kingham, M.S.
  Genetic counselor, Stanford Cancer Genetic Risk Center
• Tracey Downing
  Breast cancer survivor, age 33, BRCA1 positive

Fact: An estimated 212,920 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year alone; 11,100 of them will be in women under age 40.

Fact: Ashkenazi Jewish women are more at risk than the general population, due to higher incidence of BRACA 1 and BRACA2 gene mutations (1 in 40, as compared to 1 in 345). Carriers of these genetic mutations have over a 75% lifetime probability of developing breast cancer.