New Hopes, Longer Life

Learn more about screening and therapies for breast and ovarian cancers.

Articles of interest:

• Making Real Progress Against Breast Cancer, from the Harvard Women's Health Watch, October 2005
• Digital Mammography Better for Some Women, from the Harvard Women's Health Watch, November 2005
• A doctor talks about screening for ovarian cancer, from the Harvard Women’s Health Watch, September 2004
• Abdominal chemotherapy improves ovarian cancer survival, from the Harvard Women’s Health Watch, March 2006

Also of interest:

	Click to enlarge		Living Through Breast Cancer Harvard doctor. Breast cancer surgeon. Breast cancer survivor. Carolyn Kaelin, MD, MPH, knows the twists and turns breast cancer can take from both sides of the stethoscope. At 42, Kaelin, the director of the Comprehensive Breast Health Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Suddenly, she faced losing her breast, hair, eyebrows, energy, and far more. A mother of two, a wife, a working woman, and an avid skier and cyclist, she was forced to put so much that she cared about on hold. Read more