Hi everybody, just resurfacing after my three weeks away.
Just to let you know it was a very successful trip with lots of new contacts and information that will help the BCI in the future.
My lecture in Washington at the National Cancer Institute on “Breast Conservation, Have We Gone Too Far?” was very well received. I met with multiple researchers and given a lot of opportuinities for collaboration.
It was great to meet with Kathy Cronin and Andrew Friedman. I have been doing research with them for two years but we have never met in person. The BCI was invited by the NCI to do some research on US data on the impact of changing use of HRT on the incidence of breast cancer in the USA.
Shown here is a picture of a three-hour brainstorming session on our second paper on the variation of breast cancer incidence by Race and HRT. The team really "clicked" over the phone over the past two years and well and truly “clicked” in person and I am sure lots of projects will follow and hopefully funding. Kathy, Andrew and their assistant Nadia are some of the world's best statisticians and have published widely on breast cancer risk and prognostic factors.
By the way, Andrew is responsible for all the Cancer Risk calculators on the NCI Web and he said "The BCI's breast cancer calculator is the best I've seen". If you haven't seen it go to www.seemyrisk.com
As you can imagine I was on top of the world after this two-day "intensive". More updates soon with a formal lecture at a tumour board shortly.
Just to let you know it was a very successful trip with lots of new contacts and information that will help the BCI in the future.
My lecture in Washington at the National Cancer Institute on “Breast Conservation, Have We Gone Too Far?” was very well received. I met with multiple researchers and given a lot of opportuinities for collaboration.
It was great to meet with Kathy Cronin and Andrew Friedman. I have been doing research with them for two years but we have never met in person. The BCI was invited by the NCI to do some research on US data on the impact of changing use of HRT on the incidence of breast cancer in the USA.
Shown here is a picture of a three-hour brainstorming session on our second paper on the variation of breast cancer incidence by Race and HRT. The team really "clicked" over the phone over the past two years and well and truly “clicked” in person and I am sure lots of projects will follow and hopefully funding. Kathy, Andrew and their assistant Nadia are some of the world's best statisticians and have published widely on breast cancer risk and prognostic factors.
By the way, Andrew is responsible for all the Cancer Risk calculators on the NCI Web and he said "The BCI's breast cancer calculator is the best I've seen". If you haven't seen it go to www.seemyrisk.com
As you can imagine I was on top of the world after this two-day "intensive". More updates soon with a formal lecture at a tumour board shortly.
