Rochelle Shoretz: Good evening, everyone. I’m Rochelle Shoretz, the Founder and the Executive Director of Sharsheret. Welcome.
Thank you for being here as part of the first Medical Advisory Board roundtable at Sharsheret, entitled “Young Women Facing Breast Cancer: What We Need to Know Now.” I’m particularly delighted to welcome you to Sharsheret’s new headquarters here in Teaneck, New Jersey, and happy to welcome our participants across the country, who either e-mailed questions in advance or are
reading the transcript of this event right now.
I want to start by thanking the North Jersey Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and Diane Siegel, who is with us tonight, if you could raise your hand so everybody knows who you are, for their very generous support that enabled us to present this evening’s symposium. And I want to introduce Sharsheret’s staff, many of whom you’ve spoken with on the phone but
don’t always have the pleasure of meeting, who are here with us tonight. If you can raise your hand or stand up when I call your name that would be wonderful. Elana Silber, our Program Director; Ellen Kleinhaus, our Program Coordinator; Shera Dubitsky, our Link Program Coordinator; and Sari Stein, who I think is still outside, she’s our sema Heller intern for the summer. So, thank you all for all of your hard work in putting this together. And thank you to the members of our Medical Advisory Board, who you will meet shortly, for your efforts tonight and your continued support of Sharsheret over the years.
Tonight is about the women of Sharsheret, the concerns we face as young women with the breast cancer, the treatments we elect, and the research that will hopefully save lives. Each member of our distinguished Medical Advisory Board will introduce themselves, speak for approximately 3 to 5 minutes on some of the concerns of very young patients, and then open up for questions. Our hope is
that tonight really will be an informal opportunity for all of us to ask the questions that are foremost on our minds and to hear from you all the views of the health
care profession in terms of the cutting edge of practice for young women facing breast cancer.
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