Connect Education Workshop Details

• Screening for Bone Health and Risk Factors
• Prescription Medication to Promote Bone Health
• The Role of Nutrition, Exercise and Calcium Supplements
• Breast Cancer, Bone Loss and Bone Metastases
• Clinical Trials
• Controlling Pain and Discomfort
• Doctor-Patient Communication
• Questions for Our Panel of Experts

Linda T. Vahdat, MD Medical Director, Breast Cancer Research Program, Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Joseph M. Lane, MD Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Chief of Metabolic Bone Disease, Hospital for Special Surgery
Patricia Spicer, MSW Breast Cancer Program Coordinator, CancerCare

AdvancedBC.org, American Cancer Society, American Pain Foundation, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Association of Clinicians for the Underserved, Association of Oncology Social Work, Black Women's Health Imperative, The Bone and Cancer Foundation, Breast Cancer Alliance, Breast Cancer Network of Strength, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Cancer Patient Education Network, Cancer Support Community, Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials, Intercultural Cancer Council, Joe's House, Latinas Contra Cancer, Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation, Living Beyond Breast Cancer, Men Against Breast Cancer, Metastatic Breast Cancer Network, Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer, National Center for Frontier Communities, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, National Family Caregivers Association, Redes en Acción: The National Latino Cancer Research Network, Research Advocacy Network, The Sister Study, Tigerlily Foundation, Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation, Vital Options International & The Group Room, The Witness Project, Young Survival Coalition

This program is made possible by an unrestricted educational grant from Novartis Oncology.

March 26, 2010