1. Increased Identification of Hereditary Breast Cancer Mutations by Utilizing a Multi-Gene Test Approach
Steven Keiles, MS, CGC; Cristi Radford, MS, CGC; Elizabeth Chao, MD
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2. Impact of Motivational Phone Call and Educational Brochure on Mammography Appointment Keeping
Marleni DePhilippis, MPH; Kathleen Young, PhD; Debora Wright
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3. Impact of Journal Clubs as an Educational Tool for Radiology Technologists
Alisa Domb, RN; Paulla Miller
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4. Community Hospital Breast Center Develops Quality Assurance Program for Elderly Breast Cancer Patients Who Do Not Have Axillary Surgery
Elizabeth Tito; Joseph H. Barthold; Marvin Lopez
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5. Risk Assessment and Prevention (RAP) Programs Detect Breast Cancer Earlier in High-Risk Women
Erica Giblin, MD; Martin Rosman, MD; Charles Mylander, PhD; Victoria Shellem, CRNP; Michele Gage, MD; Clarisa Hammer, MD; Lorraine Tafra, MD, FACS
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6. Selective Lumpectomy Margin Excision Using Intraoperative Specimen Mammography Compared with Routine 6 Margin Excision
Erica Giblin, MD; Martin Rosman, MD; Charles Mylander, PhD; Kristen Sawyer, MS-CCRA; Michele Gage, MD; Clarisa Hammer, DO; Wen Liang, DO; Robert Buras, MD; Lorraine Tafra, MD, FACS
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7. Impact of Environment on Patient Experience In Women Undergoing Mammography: Preliminary Results of a Patient Satisfaction Survey
Shakira Sarquis-Kolber, RT(R), MBA ; Kathy Schilling, MD; Elizabeth Linden, RN, MSN
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8. Creating a Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Referral Program Utilizing the Electronic Medical Record System (EMR) EPIC
Jill Wozny, RN, MSN, CCNS, AOCN, CBCN, CBPN-I; Elyse Weber MS, CGC
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9. WINGS Women Inspiring, Nurturing, Giving, and Supporting one another: A Peer Counseling Program for Breast Cancer Patients
Cynthia Cantril, RN, OCN, MPH
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10. Facilitators to Quality Breast Health Management in an Urban Primary Care Environment
Christine B. Weldon; Julia R. Trosman; Betty Roggenkamp; Teena Francois; Katherine Y. Tossas-Milligan; Danielle M. Dupuy MPH; Anne Marie Murphy PhD
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11. Genetic Cancer Risk Assessment Practices - What Works?
Christine Weldon, MBA; Julia Trosman, PhD; Terry Macarol; Dana Villines
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12. Developing a Cancer Rehabilitation Program: CARF International Guidelines for Cancer Rehabilitation Specialty Programs
Nicole L. Stout, DPT, CLT-LANA; Christine MacDonell
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13. What are NCI Designated Cancer Centers Using for Breast Cancer HER2 Testing?
Christine Weldon, MBA; Julia Trosman, PhD; William Gradishar, MD; Julian Schink, MD; Kalliopi Siziopikou, MD, PhD
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14. Do Patient Improvements in Reminder and Follow Up Calls Impact No-Show Rates?
Katherine Y. Tossas-Milligan; Christine B. Weldon; Julia R. Trosma; Betty Roggenkamp; Teena L. Francois; Melissa A. Simon; David Anse; Anne Marie Murphy
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15. CAT I Oral Presenter Award Winner
Centralized Scheduling and Volunteer Navigators Improve Patient Flow
Amy Beazizo, RN, MS, OCN, CBPN-I; Deborah Dix, RN, MS
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16. Aromatherapy Reduces Anxiety During Breast Biopsy
Alisa Domb, RN; Richard Gerkin, MD; Paulla Miller
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17. Diagnostic Breast Ultrasound Audit Performance Metric Results for Solid Breast Lesions
R. L. Ellis; A. Meade; J. Cook; J. Gasal-Spilde; R. Leinbach; E. Gensch; J. Andersen; K. Marcou; J. Hudak
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18. CAT II Oral Presenter Award Winner
Application of Lean Six Sigma Strategies and Electronic Medical Record Tools to Improve the Delivery of Treatment Summaries and Survivorship Care Plans
Karyl Blaseg, RN, MSN, OCN®; Sunny Park, RN, BSN
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19. Adapting Breast Cancer Screening Strategy Using Personalized Risk Estimation
Gerald Kolb (by permission of the Partners)
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20. Improved Local Recurrence Rate Using a Multidisciplinary Approach, Pre-operative Planning and Intraoperative Gross and Ink of the Specimen for Evaluation of Margins
Gregory Senofsky, MD; Rashida Soni, MD
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21. Analysis of Marginally Abnormal Morphology Axillary Lymph Nodes with Pathologic Correlation
Joanna Riegert, RPA; Matthew Stein, MD; Matthew Morgan, MD
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22. Introducing and Evaluating 3D Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
Marie Hrinkonich, AAS, RT(R)(M)(QM); Susan Steigerwalt, RT(R)(M)
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23. A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Comparative Trial of Essential Oils to Reduce Anxiety in Women Undergoing Image-Guided Breast Biopsies
Using the Modalities of Mammography, Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Guidance.
Renee Trambert, MPH, RN, CBPN-IC; Betty Wu, RN, CBPN-I; Mildred Ortu Kowalski, PhD, RN; Nimisha Mehta, MD; Paul Friedman, DO
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24. Opto-Acoustic Imaging in the Evaluation of BI-RADS 3 Lesions: Findings and Implications
A.T. Stavros, MD; A. Lerner, MD; L. Tucker, MD; B. Boyd, RN; R. Fine, MD; W. Burak, MD
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25. Wide-Field Focused Microwave Thermotherapy in Combination with Neoadjuvant Anthracycline-Based Chemotherapy to Increase Local Response for Improved Breast Conservation Potential: Updated Phase III Clinical Trial Progress Report
William C. Dooley, MD; John R. Keyserlingk, MD; Alan J. Fenn, PhD; Mary Beth Tomaselli, MD
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26. Prevalence of BRCA1/2-Negative, Unaffected Women Requiring Adjunctive Breast MRI Screening
Barry S. Tong, MS, MPH; Kelsey Moyes, MSTAT; Elizabeth I. O. Garner, MD, MPH
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27. Elevating the Patient Experience: Spotlight on the Clinical Nurse Specialist as Patient Navigator
Ashleigh Clarke, RN, MN, CON(C); Doreen Saint, RN, MN
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28. Resident/Student Award Winner
Preventing Cardiotoxicity in Breast Cancer Radiation Treatment: Deep Inspiration Breath Hold Proves to be Superior Modality.
Robert Gitman, B.S.; Brittany A Simone, B.S.; Andrea Martin, B.S.; Tu Dan, M.D.; Amy Harrison M.S.; Rani Anne, M.D.; Laura Doyle, M.S.; Anne L. Rosenberg, M.D.; Nicole L Simone, M.D.
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29. Retrospective Comparison of Intermediate OncotypeDX and MammaPrint and the Role of Nursing in Genomics
Patsy Thompson, R.N., M.S.N., CBCN; Karen Gasper, R.N., B.S.N., OCN
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30. Applying a True Screening Workflow Protocol for Ultrasound Breast Cancer Screening Increases Biopsy PPV
Dennis McDonald, MD; Janice Whyte, RT, RDMS; Scott Huntley, MS
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31. Intraoperative Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Radioisotope Tracer Injections Pain or No-Pain – Let’s Make It Better for the Patient!
Alison L. Laidley MD, FACS, FRCS(C); Sheryl Mayer, RN, CRNFA, BPNC; Jan Tichenor, RN, MSN, CNS, OCN
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32. Recurrence Rates of Triple Negative Early Stage Breast Cancer in a Predominantly African American Population
Janice Sicat, DO; Kara Monday, MD; Brian Rezvani, MD; Sameer Pate; Marc Boisvert, MD
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33. Surgery-Chemotherapy-Radiation, Followed by a Different Kind of Triathlon
Judy A. Tjoe, MD, FACS; Leslie J. Waltke, PT; Ashley Engel; Alyson Cybulski, MS; Karen Robinson, PhD, CNM; Linda Piacentine, PhD, ACNP; Paula E. Papanek, PhD, FACSM; Alexander V. Ng, PhD, FACSM
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34. The Impact of Advance Practice Nursing in a Comprehensive Breast Center: Improving Throughput, Reducing Readmission Rates, and Increasing Satisfaction
Mary Ellen Egger; APN, MSN, WHNP, CBPN-IC; Sheryl Redlin-Frazier, RN, MSN, CBPN-IC
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35. Predicting Breast Tumor Size for Pre-operative Planning: Which Modality is Best?
Brittany Katz; Christina Raker; David Edmonson, MD; Jennifer Gass, MD; Ashley Stuckey, MD; Tina Rizack, MD
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36. Tomosynthesis Guided Breast Biopsy: A New Method for Performing Stereotactic Breast Biopsy
LaJuana Fuller, MA-HCA, RT(R)(M); Jules Sumkin, DO, FACR
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37. Early Experience with Automated Whole Breast Ultrasound Screening (AWBUS) as an Adjunct to Mammography in Women with Heterogenously or Extremely Dense Breast Tissue and a Normal Screening Mammogram
Herron D; Satre ; Haines P.
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38. The Importance of Detection Subclinical Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema after Axillary Lymph Node Dissection; Prospective Observational Study
A.Soran, MD,MPH, FAC; L.DeGore, RN, BSN; K.McGuire, MD; L. Mager Groen, MPT, CLT-LANA,WCS; R. Johnson, MD, FACS
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39. Does the Side of Surgery and Treatment Have an Effect on Anthropometric and Cardiovascular Measurements in Breast Cancer Survivors
David H. Jones; Melisa Nestore; Sara Henoph; Julia Cousin; John Keyserlingk; Alain S. Comtois
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40. Effects of Inhibition of Cytoplasmic Citrate Related Enzymes on Breast Cancer
Ali Burak Ozkaya; Handan Ak; Sevcan Atay; Hikmet Hakan Aydin
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International Delegates Posters
49. NCBC International Delegate Program
John Keyserlingk, MD, MSc, FRCS, FACS, Chair, NCBC International Liaison Committee
43. Poster presentation by Mohamed F. Al Bashir, MD, FACS from the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
44. Poster presentation by Elvis Ahmedi, MD from KOSOVO
45. Poster presentation by Kausik Chatterjee, MD, DRM from INDIA
46. Poster presentation by Ying Zhang, MD, PhD from CHINA
47. Poster presentation by Deborah Pfeiffer, MD (BM)(BS) from AUSTRALIA
48. Poster presentation by Ignacio McLean, MD from ARGENTINA