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Westside Family Health Center's Lunch & Learn: What You Can Do To Help Prevent Cancer
This is a FREE Event put on by Westside Family Health Center. Lunch provided. Parking is free in the church lot.
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DESCRIPTION: Ever wondered what you can do to prevent cancer? Maybe you would like information about what to do if faced with cancer or when shown to have the BCRA gene… Ever wondered if men get breast cancer or when breast cancer usually shows up? Have these questions and more answered by Dr. Melani Shaum, a renowned cancer expert with special interests in breast cancer and other women's cancers. Dr. Shaum will provide participants with valuable information, tips and tools on cancer prevention.
Dr. Melani Shaum is the director of the Gastrointestinal Tumor Program at The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute. She received her medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago and completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Shaum completed a fellowship in Hematology / Oncology at UCLA, where she was named Chief Resident in medicine. During her distinguished career, Dr. Shaum has served as the director of clinical hematology and oncology at Cedars-Sinai and as clinical faculty at the City of Hope Cancer Center. Dr. Shaum has been an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCLA Medical School since 1987. She has had the honor of being listed in The Best Doctors in America from 1996 to the present and was listed in The Essential Guide to L.A.'s Best Doctors.
