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Chemo. It's synonymous with the word cancer. The best way I can explain it is if you have swollen a hand grenade and now it's gonna explode inside out. But then it doesn't chemotherapy is simply just awful. It's brutal but often necessary when used alongside other therapies, it has provided a growing number of cancer patients longer recurrence free survival if you wanna live, you don't have a choice. You don't have the choice. Doctor Lila Gaffery was diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time. Last November. She went through 16 sessions of chemotherapy in order for doctors to shrink and then safely remove her clementine sized tumor. After she underwent radiation, her treatment would typically be considered done. They always ask, what now, are you sure, what can you do? What can you do to be? Sure, Doctor Massimo Cristofanilli says it's proof of the need for better monitoring tools for cancer patients who like Kerri have just completed harrowing treatment journeys. In the past, there was no standard monitoring. These women have done their treatment come for their clinical follow up and there is no imaging. Traditionally, an imaging scan is ordered months after the main treatment course ends. Now due to work done in part by Doctor Cristofanilli, there's a new way to monitor if a cancer returns sooner. It's called a liquid biopsy done by a simple blood test. Then a machine searches for traces of cancer cells. The latest technology locating the DNA of those tumors, the more cells detected the more advanced the disease. If a tumor is active somewhere in your body and it is shedding DNA, we can capture it at NYU Langone. Doctors have been using liquid biopsies in clinical trials aimed at finding more targeted and less invasive treatments for patients. The test is available. We have to figure out what's the best way to utilize it to benefit from breast cancer patients. So far studies show liquid biopsies can accurately identify lung cancers and recurrences of breast cancer. I can't tell you how tragic it is because you think that you're done. And now all of a sudden you realize, no, you're not done and it wouldn't have been detected if I didn't have the blood test. And that's the silver lining. A pet scan confirmed what the liquid biopsy detected a small slow growing tumor. I think it's less than one centimeter. It's very small. If you can catch it at that level, imagine how quickly they can intervene and and stop it. 10 years ago. If you heard someone had a metastatic breast cancer, it was sort of like, I'm sorry. Of course, we do more frequent imaging for metastatic disease. But also this blood test allows us to intervene even earlier than we used to do in the past. With new targeted precision therapies, many with late stage cancers are surviving for years after treatment and many early stage cancers are considered cured. Now, Chrishan and his team are trying to answer the question. Can the liquid biopsy test be used to catch breast cancer cases earlier the first time around while Cornell is currently recruiting women with no history of breast cancer to get liquid biopsies alongside their annual mammograms. Once we know and we can trust that it is not a false positive, it's just a positive before the imaging, then we can design an intervention. So I think this is all exciting for the future. The hope is the liquid biopsy will become for breast and other cancers. But the A one C test is for diabetes. We can imagine if we have a larger population that can get a blood test, the majority of the case would be stage one or even less undetectable that need to be prevented. So this is called cancer interception. That's really our goal and also more importantly, improve quality of life. So we're able to control the disease for longer. They are able to stay on these drugs for longer without as much toxicity from standard chemotherapy for Gaffery. Early detection means no additional chemo still the drugs targeting her new tumor come with their own uncomfortable side effects. She's working with Cryto Fanelli to adjust the dosing. She's fighting through it though because she plans to continue practicing dentistry and hopes to celebrate her son's upcoming marriage in style. I hope my body is back to normal. My hair is back to normal. You know, it, it's coming back. I want to have quality of life and this type of test definitely it is helpful so people can have quality of life if they catch it early, you know, or in my case, adjusting the medication to make it livable.

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This research is important. It helps breast cancer deaths have fallen in recent decades. You are a survivor. You are tough but not all patients are benefiting equally from scientific breakthroughs. There are days that you're not able to eat, there are days that you're not able to leave your bed. You just hope for the best black women are less likely than white women to develop breast cancer. They are 42% more likely to die from it. These disparities in delivery of care are heart heartbreaking. The highest mortality rate of any racial or ethnic group. There is an epidemic and it is called black breast cancer. We love taking Christmas pictures. It's obvious that you're a woman of faith. Thank you for noticing that Nancy Dejo, devout faith. God has been with me all my life has seen her through a lot of struggles dealing with breast cancer is a life and death situation. After her diagnosis, Nancy discovered something that many other black patients already know. Far too often women of color fight a losing battle when it comes to breast cancer. If you had to pinpoint it. Why is breast cancer so much more deadly for black women than white women. There's so many reasons. It's so multifactorial. Doctor Vivian B, director of the breast program at New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital is at the forefront of efforts to close the staggering cancer mortality gap between black and white women that's persisted for over a decade. It should make us all pause and say that it just shouldn't happen in the United States and it, and it does. And so it is a black breast crisis is what I call it. We pulled the data for the tri state and it showed death rates among black patients are even higher than the national average in New Jersey and only slightly lower in New York and Connecticut. The research also shows women of color are more likely to face delays in treatment, get diagnosed at a later stage and with a more aggressive form of the disease such as triple negative breast cancer, which is more difficult to treat. There is uh nothing that can adequately express the heartbreak that you feel when it affects you. Doctor B's mentor, Lisa Newman learned this firsthand last year, carry her with me after her only sister suddenly fell ill. Unfortunately, we lost her in a matter of 3 to 4 months. As one of the world's leading surgical oncologist, Doctor Newman had every resource at her disposal to help her older sister fight the lethal disease. But it made little difference. It's so forcefully drove home the fact that these disparities are they go way beyond socioeconomics. Black women are dying unnecessarily from breast cancer. Because as an oncology community, we have not invested into studies of disparities the way that we should have. But doctor Newman is fighting to change that through a groundbreaking research program. She runs through wild Cornell medicine into breast tumor biology. If we do the research, that's necessary, we will identify the answers to these questions. But another obstacle black patients face is a lack of access to clinical trials. We also know that clinical trials really inform how we treat patients with the medications that they're given, right? But if we don't have representation in these clinical trials, then how are we really saying that what we are saying is working for all is working truly for all. How you doing? We joined Nancy this month for her first appointment at the newly opened Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center, a one stop shop for patients, bringing top surge researchers, advanced screening equipment and even take a deep breath in wellness programs all under one roof. They need to be taken care of in a comprehensive way, taking the pill after several surgeries, radiation chemotherapy and hair loss. Nancy is finally in remission. Grateful. Her diagnosis was not a death sentence. I feel great I'm alive. So I will encourage my sisters to take their life seriously and go get tested on time.

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Welcome back. We're joined by two of the best breast cancer specialists in our area. Doctor Maxine Joleen, chief of breast imaging Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Doctor Alison Moll Robley, head of Montefiore Bold Program. Thank you both for being there. Doctor. I'll start out with you. There was something I didn't get to include in my story that I'd like to ask you about. And that is when we're talking about these racial disparities that exist for breast cancer outcomes, they are especially pronounced when it comes to black men. So let's discuss the stigma that exists in that community and some of the ways your program tries to sidestep it. Absolutely. So I'd say stigma is part of it. I think uh uh you know, when people hear cancer and particularly black men, it's sort of an avoidance reaction, but it's also a little, little bit of lack of health awareness and activation. I think a lot of men sort of wait for their wives, their mothers to kind of take them to the doctor. And if they don't and a lot of our men, at least in the Bronx are single, they're not going. So we have to activate them, we have to educate them and we have to make them self advocates for their, for their own health care. And I think that's a big plus for our men. You know, Doctor Joel, there's been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence and it's also being used for cancer, breast cancer detection. Can you tell us more about that? Sure. Um Artificial artificial intelligence is a technology that enables us to find things that we can't see with the human eye and particularly on digital images. So that while we're reading mammograms, many of which with the new 3d mammography have hundreds of images. This technology will point out things that you may have missed and help you not miss cancers also enables you to read faster and it's less exhausting. And so that overall gives a much better um detection rate for patients having screening doctor question. Well, actually for both of you, you touched on the need to self advocate and that was one of the biggest takeaways from me from Aaron and I's reporting is that patients need to do a better job at this. So in addition to going for annual screenings, considered genetic testing, researching these clinical trials, what else can you add to that list for us? Well, in my program, we have peer navigators. So we have cancer survivors who reach out to newly diagnosed patients or to community members and really advocate for them and tell them. It's important to get your screening to get it early. Um, don't avoid it, don't turn it over to God. I mean, obviously, you know, prayer is important but get your health care, get your screening done. So, our Peer Navigators are called old buddies. They're amazing. We've got 47 of them in the Bronx of all different, um, ethnic backgrounds, cancers, uh, backgrounds and they're out there, you know, basically advocating for our community um and teaching them that you have to speak up. You know, even if you have some discomfort with, you know, your interactions with the medical care, you have to speak up because if you don't uh avoidance can, can really be dangerous to your, to your life. Closing thoughts, doctor. And I agree with everything that you just said. I think it's also important for women to find out if there are clinical trials that they may wanna take part in those trials that not only helps them or may or may not help them, but it will help people in the future get the best possible care. All right. Well, Doctor Maxine Jalen and Doctor Alison Moll Robley, thank you for being a part of our program. And also remember most women who are diagnosed with breast cancer survive. The future is bright. There is so much hope and we have a lot more information about breast cancer on our websites and our mobile apps for news 12. I'm Tara Rosenbloom. And I'm Erin Phillips. Thank you for watching.

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A special report from News 12 and Spectrum News NY1 highlights cutting-edge research in the tri-state area and underscores the importance of breast cancer prevention and detection. 

BREAST CANCER SPECIAL

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Fighting Together Against Breast Cancer

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New Jersey

NJ Weather Stories

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NJ | Weather

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Back in my day. All right, let's see where the forecast is headed. As we go into the weekend, we've got rain. We have wind and a lot of it. Now, the timing of it is going to be critical. Most of the storminess that we're anticipating for Sunday is going to happen very late Sunday night into early Monday morning, the weekend is salvageable. Saturday is great and warm. We just see a little bit more cloud coverage. The first part of Sunday, up until about maybe three, four o'clock in the afternoon should be dry. Then the showers start and become steadier and heavier when all is said and done. We're likely going to pick up between 1 to 2 inches of rain in our rain gauges and a lot of that is going to happen very quickly and then the winds are picking up also. So it's a wind driven rain and if we do approach wind gusts of 4045 maybe even 50 miles an hour and it lasts for a couple of hours occasionally hitting those gusts, not, it's not gonna be a 34 hour sustained 40 or 50 mile an hour. Wind gust, it's periodically happening, but that's the type of wind that could get the power to flicker from time to time. We're at 39 dropping down to about 32. The opportunity for rain is going to be Sunday night into Monday morning, Saturday is looking great. Sunday afternoon is ok. It's cloudy but you'll be able to feel it in the air that the rain is certainly going to be building. So for tonight, temperatures, twenties and thirties with just a few clouds around Friday is gorgeous with sunshine. Temperatures are back up into the upper forties. We look at the extended forecast and as I mentioned, Saturday is warm but clouds are building Sunday morning, early Sunday afternoon, cloudy dry that changes going into Sunday night into early Monday morning. Give yourself a lot of extra time in that Monday morning routine to potentially deal with some travel headaches, getting wherever you go, the rain and the wind are gone for next week, the sunshine is back out but the cold that returns with morning lows in the twenties and thirties, daytime highs in the lower forties.

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Brooklyn

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Into news. 12 New York for your weather too because we're gonna have a lot of updates coming up over the next couple of days as we are on storm watch, heading towards the weekend, rain is gonna be an issue. Let's check in with storm watch teams. Hoo sei right now to find out how much of an issue it's gonna be. Yeah, Kurt, you know, we're dealing with the rain and we're also dealing with the high wind. So here's the top stories through the weekend. So we're dealing with a nice warm up. That's something that you can enjoy. In the meantime, Friday and Saturday, Gusty storms are to follow on our Sunday and then falling temperatures by Monday. So let's get into the next couple of days high as tomorrow near 48 degrees, 55 on, on Saturday and then 61 on Sunday. But look where those temperatures crash mid to upper forties on our Monday and even cooler by the midweek. But again, we're talking about the rain. That's why we are on storm watch. Again. We're tracking some steady rainfall arriving Sunday afternoon and even taking us into Monday morning. So let's time it out on your future Cast Sunday, it is gonna start off dry. Then we see those temperatures climbing into the upper fifties. Low sixties, some light rain start then a random and, and then it starts to pick up in intensity by the evening hours. So this is around midnight. You're seeing temperatures still near 60 degrees and you're seeing the darker shades of green and yellow, good indicated for some soaking rain And even the high winds will start picking up in intensity through this time frame. But look how quickly those temperatures crash from the sixties to the mid forties by Monday morning. Even though that the rain is pushing out of here, we're still gonna be dealing with some standing water and some gusty winds. So your Monday morning commute will still be impacted Monday afternoon. It is drier temperatures in the mid to upper forties, even cooler by Monday evening. But again, back to those high winds, 40 to 50 MPH really going to be any concern as well as the rain. We're talking about 1 to 2.5 inches of rainfall. It's all good and I don't mean Rainbow.

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Westchester

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Well, the weekend I could smell it already Addison. But so is the storm that's brewing right on the horizon? What are we looking at in terms of those weekend plans? Is it gonna be a washout? Thankfully not Nikita, I think uh weekend plans should go on. No problems whatsoever for Saturday, Sunday. Not so much, right? Not so much. Let me just go ahead and step aside. You can see what I'm talking about because Sunday right here is something to stand out as a day that we have to be maybe staying inside versus going out and about especially for the evening hours, 100% chance right there for seeing rain Saturday though dry, I think even Saturday night as well. First part of Sunday before noon, I think dry as well. Then after that all bets are off for you trying to stay dry and be outside because here is what you can be expecting for Sunday to Monday. A storm system moving on this way, giving us batches of moder to heavy rain at times, gusts could go 30 to 50 plus MPH. So there may be some isolated flood concerns depending upon where you are in the Hudson Valley area. Those usual lowly air, they get a little bit of some rain can sometimes see some flooding. Yeah, you know those spots. So moving towards your Futurecast 930 in the morning on Sunday, since Saturday will be gorgeous. Let's go towards Sunday. We start the day off with partly to mostly cloudy skies. There's a system in question coming on in from the west going towards lunchtime, still looking pretty good. Just have rain showers just on our doorstep afterwards though, towards 2 to 4 o'clock, here comes the rain light to moderate at first, just more scattered showers than anything else. But see these yellow lines, those are called Isobars lines of equal pressure. The more of them we have and we're closely tight to get tacked together, shows us a strong windfield. We're gonna be seeing wind gusts coming out of a south westerly direction around 20 to 30 MPH sustained gusts going higher than that toss in some moderate to heavy downpours and may get some brief gusts of 40 to 50 plus MPH that time frame right there towards three o'clock in the morning or so. Our system starts to pull away from us after Monday morning's commute, but we can still nonetheless deal with some gusts going on in towards o'clock. You see 3040 plus MPH, even maybe some spots close to 50 as you look out there for that rainfall potential. It's gonna be adding on up, maybe about 1 to 2 injuries or so. But we're gonna be seeing on storm system that's all the way on the west coast head over this way over time. But for the time being, it's just cold out there, we have to deal with temperatures running a little bit below average for the rest of the night. Tomorrow starts improving and then we see temperatures in the fifties and rising after that with the rain chances as well.

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Ok. Ok. We've got some, uh, kind of ugly stuff moving in but the weekend's gonna be kind of warm most of it for most of it, which is the good takeaway from this is that we are looking for majority of the next few days to be fine. It's just really gonna be our Sunday afternoon and evening hours where we're gonna have to just be weather aware. So what we need to know we're looking at Friday. Not bad. It's gonna actually be a warmer start to a trend that's gonna get even better. By the time we get into our Saturday, Saturday, we're still on the dry end. Temperatures will start to warm into the middle fifties and then Sunday, we're going to be near 60 degrees if not at the 60 degree mark. But that's also when we're gonna be looking at the storm system to move in from a Sunday afternoon into our Monday morning. So around at dinner time or even early into our afternoon is when we're gonna be anticipating to see some rain from the storm system to move its way across to Long Island. Now, early parts of our Sunday, it's mainly going to be light rain. But as we get to the overnight transitioning into early Monday morning, heavy rainfall is going to start to develop for us just into around the five o'clock mark, which is going to lead into our early Monday morning. So we could see between 1 to 2 inches of rainfall by the time the event is over with and gusty winds from 30 to 40 MPH. The good news is though, once we're into our Monday afternoon, it looks to clear up for us, but until we get there overnight, it's partly cloudy cold conditions, temperatures just a degree or two below freezing or at the freezing point. Again, Friday and Saturday, you're not gonna need the heavy coats but still gonna be nice and chilly. At least until we get into our Saturday, quiet conditions heading into our Friday for us. Plenty of sunshine, cloud cover will move in for Saturday and then for Sunday into Monday, we're gonna be monitoring that storm system.

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Connecticut

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We have some interesting weather developing over the next few days, changing seasons, basically. And by the time we get to Sunday, it's going to be warmer but rainy and windy. So much rain, about 2 to 3 inches could fall that that may lead to some flooding. We may also have some damaging winds. Winds could gust as high as about 50 miles an hour and that's enough to possibly cause some power outages. So make sure all your devices are charged that knock down or destroy some of those holiday decorations. So please secure the objects outside your home if you can before Sunday. And then we want to watch the coast for some title flooding during our high tide cycle coming in Sunday into Monday. Now, tomorrow it's a chilly start to the morning but a better finish. Much warmer by the afternoon, winds are generally, I don't foresee any major issues on the roads due to the weather. Enjoy the day because it's quiet temperatures in the forties. So you still need some nice warm layers, but you really don't need the heavy duty winter coat. You will need the umbrellas and all that rain gear. Waking up Monday morning from that storm coming in late Sunday, temperatures are going to crash after that. Highs back into the forties and lows in the twenties next week.

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News 12 and Spectrum News NY1's 'Fighting Together Against Breast Cancer'

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I'm Tara Rosenblum with News 12 and I'm Aaron Phillips with Spectrum News New York. One. In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We're teaming up for a special presentation. We'll share inspiring survivor stories and developments in the Search for a cure. Join us for fighting together Monday October 30th at 9 p.m. on News 12, presented by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center because where you're treated first matters.

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