Key points from today’s guests:

Tracey Caton, breast cancer survivor

• Tracey had undergone routine mammograms and has been getting screened since she was 40.
• At 52, a routine screening led to an MRI, then a biopsy, which led to a diagnosis of cancer in both breasts.
• Friends and family reassured that she was at a place with the best care and she had full trust in the team and the process.
• She had a double mastectomy, four rounds of chemotherapy, and later, surgery to have her ovaries removed.
• She is finished with treatments and is feeling really good.
• Tracey wants to be an advocate for others patients to get screened regularly because the early detection saved her life.

Dr. Jamie Wagner, breast surgery oncologist, breast program director, The University of Kansas Cancer Center

• Tracey had invasive lobular carcinoma – a rare form of breast cancer as about 15 percent of breast cancer is this type.
• Breast cancer is the most common non-skin cancer with about 1 in 8 women diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their life.
• When breast cancer is caught in early stages, the survival rate for many patients after five years is 99 percent.
• A screening mammogram is trying to find something initial. If something abnormal is identified, we bring a patient back for further screening.
• We know that 43 percent of the time, patients will have different diagnosis if they get a second opinion by a breast specialist at an NCI-designated cancer center.
• Women should begin screening mammograms at age 40. Supplemental screening should be done with women with dense breast tissue.
• Treatment is survival.
• Tracey is a guiding light and the power of positivity.

Monday, Oct. 7 at 8 a.m. is the next Morning Medical Update. Four people in need and four willing kidney donors – hear about the amazing effort of an eight-person kidney chain that saved lives.

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