History
This First Lady and wife of President Gerald Ford transformed the national conversation around women's health by speaking openly about her own breast cancer diagnosis in the 1970s.
Who is Betty Ford?
What is the medical condition that has as one of its leading symptoms lumps in the breast?
What is Breast Cancer
Where do we meet?
Room 3121 duh
Blood levels of A1C, or hemoglobin chemically linked to a sugar, are commonly used to determine whether an individual has what medical condition?
Diabetes
By leveraging her prominent influence in the beauty industry, she helped turn a private suffering into a global movement by co-creating the Pink Ribbon Foundation.
Who is Evelyn Lauder?
What is a mammogram?
When do we meet?
Every other Thursdays!!!
Records the electrical acitivty and rhythm of the heart.
ECG/EKG
This specific gene, discovered by a visionary geneticist, revealed a crucial hereditary component to breast and ovarian cancers and allowed for early genetic testing.
What is BRCA1?
What is 1 in 8?
Who are the officers?
- Isabella Risse (President)
- Ren Shrestha (Vice-President)
- Jazelle Noblejas (Secretary)
- Stacey Sinogo (Treasurer)
What “O” is the specific scientific medical study of the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer?
Oncology
Her groundbreaking research in genetics identified the hereditary links to breast cancer, drastically advancing women's health and diagnostic testing.
Who is Dr. Mary-Claire King?
What is 44 percent?
What do we do in this club?
- Learn about women in healthcare
- Raise awareness
- Provide healthcare careers information
- Potluck at the end of the year
- And even more! (Follow our socials and be updated)
Which ancient Greek physician is known as the "Father of Medicine"?
Hippocrates
She was the first woman elected president of the New York Cancer Society and pioneered a technique to test chemotherapy drugs on patient tissues before clinical administration.
Who is Dr. Jane C. Wright?
Reflecting a shift in medical education demographics, women accounted for this specific percentage of medical school applicants.
What is 57.2%?
How do we communicate and give out updates?
Which part of the brain controls balance and coordination?
Cerebellum