Breast Cancer in Younger Women: New Treatment Options

Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 1:30 – 2:30 pm, Eastern Time

Registrants can listen in live over the phone or online as a webcast.

Topics Covered

• Overview of Breast Cancer in Younger Women, Including Diagnosing, Staging & ER, PR, HER2 Status
• Unique Issues for Younger Women Living with Breast Cancer
• Precision Medicine & Sequencing of Treatment
• Genetic Testing, Including BRCA Testing
• What Informs Treatment Decisions & Options
• Understanding Your Pathology Report
• Updates on Clinical Trials: How Research Increases Treatment Options
• Tools that Help Indicate What Types of Treatment Are Indicated: Surgery, Chemotherapy & Radiation Treatments
• Questions to Ask Your Health Care Team
• Managing Side Effects, Symptoms, Discomfort & Pain
• Quality-of-Life, Including Sexual Health, Pregnancy & Fertility Issues
• Practical & Emotional Coping Tips
• Questions for Our Panel of Experts

Our Panel of Experts

Jennifer M. Matro, MD

Co-Director, Breast Oncology, Fair Oaks Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Inova Health

Sanne Wortel, PhD

Hartford Health Care Clinical Health Psychologist, Hartford HealthCare’s Women’s Health Services, Member of the Health Psychology Department at the Institute of Living

Cassie Spector, MSW

Breast and Gynecological Cancers Program Coordinator, CancerCare

Continuing Education Credits

(Live Only)

Social Workers: This program has been submitted to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, an approved provider through the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners, provider #CS4607, for 1.0 Contact Hour.

Cancer Care, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0088. This workshop is approved for 1.0 Contact Hour.

Registered Dietitians: This program has been submitted to the Commission on Dietetic Registration for one Continuing Professional Education Unit (CPEU).

To request continuing education paperwork, please email your name, profession and address to connect@cancercare.org after the program. All paperwork for continuing education credit must be requested, completed and submitted within two weeks of the live program.

Brochure

You can download the brochure for this workshop