While the Mid-Shore and the country as a whole bands together yearly to acknowledge Breast Cancer Month and the critical preventative message it brings, it is sometimes lost on the general public how much progress has been made since those pink ribbons were first on display in the early 1990s.
And that is why the Spy recently asked Dr. Rashmi Benda, Medical of Radiation Oncology at the Cancer Center at Shore Regional Health, and Dr. Roberta Lilly, Medical Director of the Clark Comprehensive Breast Center, to stop by the Spy Studio the other day to talk about the evolution of breast cancer treatment from when mastectomy was quickly recommended to the present, when treatments – including less radical surgery, radiation, immunotherapy, and chemotherapy – can be tailored to each individual case.
This video is approximately seven minutes in length. For more information about breast cancer diagnosis and treatment please go here.
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