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1. According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, other than skin cancer and is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer.
2. Every three minutes, a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer (www.breastcancer.org).
3. According to the American Cancer Society, about 178,480 women in the United States will be found to have invasive breast cancer in 2007.
About 40,460 women will die from the disease this year.
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Deborah Lindquist, M.D., is a Medical Oncologist. She did her residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota Hospitals and clinics in Minneapolis; and completed fellowship training in Hematology and Medical Oncology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Her first position was at the Boston VA Medical Center. In 1989, she started her own clinic in Sedona, Arizona. Her clinic provides a healing, natural setting where patients can receive treatment. Her area of particular clinical expertise is breast cancer.
She is actively involved in clinical research. Deborah was an author on the article in The New England Journal of Medicine, December 27, 2006, describing the pivotal trial using a new agent lapatinib with oral chemotherapy of capecitabine, that showed a profound benefit for women with Her 2 positive breast cancer.
She is also on the national breast cancer committee for Beyond Limits Healing, She is a member of the American Society for Clinical Oncology, the American Society of Hematology, am a fellow in the American College of Physicians, and a member in the American Society of Breast Diseases.
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Dr. Favret, a native of the Washington , D.C. area, is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Catholic University . She received her medical degree at Temple University . Dr. Favret completed her Internship and Residency training at Georgetown University and completed her Fellowship training at Stanford University . While at Stanford she focused primarily on clinical research for breast cancer.
Dr. Favret has published several review articles and original research papers, in addition to a book chapter in the area of breast cancer management. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. Dr. Favret is also an associate member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. She is a physician on staff with Fairfax-Northern Virginia Hematology-Oncology (FNVHO) in 1999. Dr. Favret has a special interest in treating breast cancer. Learn more about FNVHO at http://www.fnvho.com.
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Dr. Virginia Chiantella obtained her undergraduate degree at Georgetown University, and received her MD degree from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She completed her surgery specialty training at the Wake Forest University Medical Center, where she was the first female to complete the Surgery training program. She spent a year at the University Medical Center as the Bradshaw Surgery Research Fellow, participating in award-winning cardiac surgery research, and was Chief Resident in Surgery there in 1989.
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