Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:

1) Present the variation in estrogen responses in the normal human breast
2) Demonstrate the utility of a human explant culture system for assessing functional responses of human breast tissue
3) Gauge interest in functional assays for diagnostic tool to predict breast cancer risk and prognosis

Faculty

Karen Dunphy, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Baystate Medical Center
University of Massachusetts
Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.