Name
The Lynne Cohen High Risk Clinic at Bellevue Hospital Center, NYU Cancer Institute

Program
In this program, we make a special effort to provide excellent medical care to uninsured, underserved minority women from communities that have traditionally had fewer medical services available. This is a clinical care/research program for family members of women who have been diagnosed with breast and/or ovarian cancer, and for the women themselves. Each of these diagnoses puts the individual woman as well as her family members at increased risk. Participants receive both breast and gynecologic exams and screenings; genetic counseling; lifestyle counseling; educational tools; and access to the latest early detection and prevention trials for women’s cancers. Our goal is to ensure that every woman who participates benefits by feeling more in charge of her health concerns and better prepared for her future.

Institution
Bellevue Hospital Center, NYU Cancer Institute

Studies Open to Participants
1. NYU 00-60: Cancer Screening and Prevention Program for High Risk Women
2. Integrated Breast Cancer Care for Medically Underserved Multiethnic Women in New York
3. Breast Cancer Care and Treatment for Uninsured Women
4. Attitudes toward Genetic Risk among underserved women at Familial risk for Cancer

Directors
Drs. Muggia & Curtin

Eligibility
BRCA 1 or 2; family member(s) with breast and/or ovarian cancer, or known BRCA mutation in the family; Ashkenazi Jewish descent; breast biopsy with atypical cells or lobular carcinoma in-situ; history of infertility drugs; a diagnosis of breast or ovarian cancer (one of which increases the risk for the other)

Phone
212-263-3198

For more information about this program, please visit:
http://www.med.nyu.edu/nyuci/patients/support/hrwc/

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