A Mind of Her Own

Guiding Women Through Breast Cancer Treatment: A Surgeon Shares Her Role


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More and more women are living and thriving far beyond breast cancer. The journey is difficult, but there are amazingly committed providers working to help us succeed. One of them just happens to be Dr. Reid's big sister.
 
Join Jennifer Reid, MD as she interviews Jodi Brehm, MD, an award-winning breast surgeon and women's health advocate with Advocate Health Systems in Wisconsin. 

Dr. Brehm's professional goal has always been to help her patients through their breast cancer journey with empathy, support, and encouragement—there is life after breast cancer.

We Discuss:
1) Dr. Brehm's recommendation for mammograms: how often, what type?
2) Risk factors for breast cancer and how to protect yourself.
3) The treatment pathway after breast cancer diagnoses, and why outcomes are
so much better in recent years.

References from Episode:
Susan B. Komen Organization https://www.komen.org/

Dr. Jodi Brehm attended the University of North Dakota for her undergraduate and medical school degrees and completed her general surgery residency at Rush University, Medical Center. She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and has been a practicing breast surgeon since 2008. She has also been awarded the Business Journal Women of Influence Award in the category of Innovation and has been elected a Castle Connolly Top Doctor since 2015, nominated by her fellow physicians for excellence in clinical care.

When not at the hospital, her favorite things to do are spending time with her husband and three children, riding horse, and adding to her growing menagerie of pets. She thinks her kid sister is very cool. 

Dr. Brehm: https://care.aurorahealthcare.org/doctors/jodi-l-brehm-mount-pleasant-general-surgery

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