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Sherri Jackson leads a team of CBS 42 journalists who covered stories on breast cancer detection, treatment, clinical trials and survivor stories from the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center.

This podcasts condenses a special program and adds an interview of one of six UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Oncologists who answered calls in the CBS 42 Local War on Cancer phone bank from October 18, 2018.

Sherri interviews UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
Breast Health Center Director Dr. Helen Krontiras. They are taking viewer questions from Wednesday October 18, 2018. That's the night CBS 42 aired a half hour special broadcast on "The Local War on Cancer." You can see the special in it's entirety on CBS42.COM

Sherri interviews UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Radiation Oncologist Dr. Eddy Yang who is a professor and Vice Chair of Translational Sciences in UAB's Comprehensive Cancer Center
and ROAR Southeast Cancer Foundation Endowed Chair. We explore cancer staging and the new TNM system. And discuss the the three sub-types of breast cancer: Estrogren Receptor positive, Her2 positive, and Triple Negative.

CBS 42 IS PARTNERING WITH UAB COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF OCTOBER"BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH" TO ADDRESS THIS DISEASE THAT IS DIAGNOSED IN 4-THOUSAND PEOPLE IN ALABAMA EACH YEAR:
BREAST CANCER WILL CLAIM AT LEAST 700 LIVES IN OUR STATE THIS YEAR.
BUT THERE IS A BATTLE ON THE HEALTH FRONT IN RESEARCH, DETECTION AND TREATMENT TO SAVE THOSE LIVES.

For many women with breast cancer the journey begins with the discovery of a lump.
In this podcast News Anchor Sherri Jackson interviews Dr. Caroline Reich Medical Director of the Breast Imaging Center at the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center and UAB Medical Oncologist Dr. Gabrielle Rocque about what happens next.”