On this episode of Scrubcast, we speak with Dr. Fred Dirbas, the John and Ann Doerr Faculty Scholar of Breast Surgery and chair of the breast disease site working group for the Society for Surgical Oncology.
Rather than ascribing to a particular set of screening recommendations, Dr. Dirbas advocates for personalized screening strategies, particularly for women with a family history of breast cancer
He discusses his innovative work in FLASH radiotherapy, which aims to minimize side effects typically associated with traditional radiation, and his research on triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), focusing on identifying subpopulations of TNBC stem cells through molecular profiling.