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Study Goes Beyond Yearly Mammograms

Patricia Padilla, nurse practitioner at DHR Health, looks over a brochure with another hospital employee. Padilla runs the hospital’s innovative Breast Cancer Risk Evaluation Clinic. (photo DHR Health)

Dr. Lisa Chapa wholeheartedly encourages women in the Rio Grande Valley to enroll in a groundbreaking national study that measures the risk of women getting breast cancer. The WISDOM Study (Women Informed to Screen Depending on Measures of risk) can “revolutionize the way breast cancer is detected and risk is reduced,” Chapa said. This multi-institutional trial includes the DHR Health Institute for Research and Development, which serves as the primary…

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