Cotton-O'Neil Cancer Center
The Cotton-O'Neil Cancer Center staff.
The Cotton-O’Neil Cancer Center in Topeka, Kansas, recently became involved in the Sister Study and the center’s research and genetics professionals are actively informing women about this landmark study.
“This is an important study for many reasons. The Sister Study is one of the first long-term studies designed to help us understand how women’s genes and the things in our environment – homes, workplaces and communities – influence our risk of breast cancer. In addition, it is the first study to ever collect such extensive and detailed information about our environmental exposures,” said Lenna Levitch, genetic counselor at the Cotton-O’Neil Cancer Center.
The Cotton-O’Neil Cancer Center is getting the word out through Healthy Times, the community newsletter of its parent organization, Stormont-Vail HealthCare, and by having staff meet with community groups, particularly groups with specific demographics that the study has targeted.
The medical professionals at the Cotton-O’Neil Cancer Center know that research such as the Sister Study can only help the patients and families they will serve in the future. The cancer diagnosis and treatment center, which has its roots back to 1969, has had a longtime clinical research program. It also is now offering genetic counseling services, as well as a number of other services and programs to northeast Kansans.
Link to the Cotton-O’Neil Cancer Center at www.stormontvail.org
Link to the Summer 2007 issue of Healthy Times at http://www.stormontvail.org/calendar/healthytimes.html
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