Jane Brock's Biography

Jane Brock, Chief of Breast Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Jane Brock is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Breast Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Boston. She oversees a high volume subspecialty diagnostic breast pathology service including institutional consults for DFCI and evaluates pathology for breast cancer clinical trials running at the DFCI, focusing her energy on improving workflows in breast cancer diagnosis in high and low-resource settings. She has given national and international talks and educational workshops to physicians and non-physicians on the subjects of breast cancer pathology, biopsy handling, and point of care opportunities in breast cancer diagnostics.

Rapid Diagnosis of Breast Cancer: Innovative Approaches with a Focus on Low Resource Setting

Tuesday, 18 June 2019 at 16:15

Add to Calendar ▼2019-06-18 16:15:002019-06-18 17:15:00Europe/LondonRapid Diagnosis of Breast Cancer: Innovative Approaches with a Focus on Low Resource SettingPoint-of-Care, Biosensors and Mobile Diagnostics Europe 2019 in Rotterdam, The NetherlandsRotterdam, The NetherlandsSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

Breast Cancer care includes prevention, early detection, diagnostics and therapeutics. Therapeutic decisions are made based on traditional prognostic factors including tumor size, lymph node status, and factors obtained from pathological assessment including tumor grade, immunohistochemical profile of Estrogen and Progesterone Receptor (ER and PR) and Her2/neu gene amplification status. Point of care technology is not currently used in this routine pathological assessment, but there are new opportunities to expedite and facilitate diagnosis, primarily driven by the need to provide breast cancer diagnoses in low-resource settings to the tens of thousands of women who develop breast cancer worldwide. This presentation will discuss alternative methods of tissue biopsy, handling, and imaging and prognostic marker evaluation that can obviate the need for expensive traditional processing equipment and microscopes, and can allow for more rapid cancer diagnosis and biomarker evaluation compared with current traditional methods.

Add to Calendar ▼2019-06-18 00:00:002019-06-19 00:00:00Europe/LondonPoint-of-Care, Biosensors and Mobile Diagnostics Europe 2019Point-of-Care, Biosensors and Mobile Diagnostics Europe 2019 in Rotterdam, The NetherlandsRotterdam, The NetherlandsSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

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