The Truth About Breast Cancer Risk Assessment,
by Alan B. Hollingsworth, M.D.
Previous books have covered risk factors, but now you can learn how these risks are assembled into a personal profile, and:
Learn why the most popular model for risk assessment can often be the most misleading.
Realize that women without known risk factors are still at a significant risk for developing breast cancer.
Understand how important your personal risk profile becomes when you begin to make other health care decisions.
Appreciate how media-supported studies of risk factors frequently become distorted.
Discover that there are protective factors that can offset risk factors, as well as the option of chemoprevention.
Gaze into a crystal ball and visulaize the future of risk assessment.
About the Author
Alan B. Hollingsworth, M.D. parks his heart in hometown El Reno, Oklahoma, though his career has taken him to Los Angeles and back to Oklahoma City. When his high school alma mater began a program to honor distinguished graduates, Dr. Hollingsworth was selected as a first round draft pick.
Realizing that "first" is not automatically "best", the author strives for both. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oklahoma, he received his M.D. With Distinction from the OU College of Medicine where he was elected First Vice-president of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (actually, denoting "second").
After serving as Chief of Surgery at Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital in Los Angeles, he returned to Oklahoma where he became the first board-certified physician in the state to limit his practice to breast disease, the first to launch a multi-specialty breast center, the first to establish a breast cancer risk assessment program. When genetic testing for hereditary breast cancer became available, his program was among the first in the country to include this service with breast cancer risk assessment. He is also the first to explain, as you will learn in the book, that he's "no expert".
A perennial nominee and winner of teaching awards at the OU College of Medicine, he was recently a finalist for the Stanton L. Young Master Teacher Award. Currently, he serves as Medical Director of the Breast Program at Mercy Health Center, while assisting the Steering Committee of the Oklahoma Breast Cancer Project.
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