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Trends in Breast Health
is a newsletter for health
professionals dedicated to
serving the breast cancer
community. It is our ission
to provide you with informative
and relevant topics of
interest to aid you in your
respective clinical setting.
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Martin Keisch, MD
President of Cancer HealthCare Associates
Radiation Oncologist
University of Miami Hospital and the Miami Brachytherapy Center
Martin E. Keisch, MD, a board-certified radiation oncologist in private
practice at University of Miami Hospital, is President of Cancer HealthCare
Associates (CHCA). Dr. Keisch has extensive expertise in breast, prostate
sarcoma and GYN brachytherapy. He has authored many publications on
Accelrated Partial Breast Irradiaion. He was the principal investigator of
the initial MammoSite Trial. He currently serves as an investigator in the
Mammosite Multicenter DCIS trial and the Mammosite Registry trial for
the American Society of Breast Surgeons. He graduated with honors from
Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA, in 1987. Dr. Keisch
completed a residency in radiation oncology in 1992 at the Mallinckrodt
Institute of Radiology at Washington University Medical Center in St.
Louis, MO, where he served as chief resident in radiation oncology. In addition,
he was an American Cancer Society research fellow. Prior to joining
University of Miami Hospital, Dr. Keisch worked as a radiation oncologist
at Mount Sinai Medical Center Miami Beach, FL, as well as Medical
Director of Radiation oncology at Sharp Healthcare in San Diego, CA and
Medical Director of Aventura Hospital Cancer Center.
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Pamela Benitez, MD
Breast Surgeon
William Beaumont Hospital
Dr. Pamela Benitez is a graduate of Albany Medical College and did her
surgical residency at the University of Michigan Hospitals. She comes to
us from William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, where she is
a general surgeon with a busy practice focusing exclusively on diseases
of the breast and breast cancer. She is also highly active in research and
medical education. Her recent publications are on the cosmetic outcomes
and toxicities with interstitial catheter brachytherapy partial breast
irradiation (PBI), infections with breast surgery, surgical considerations
with PBI, and non-invasive breast cancer (DCIS) and MammoSite PBI.
Her most recent work has appeared in Cancer and The American Journal
of Surgery. In April of 2006, Dr. Benitez presented the data of the DCIS
MammoSite Trial at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Breast
Surgeons which was subsequently published in the American Journal
of Surgery. The 5-year results of the Initial Clinical Trial of MammoSite
Balloon Catheter Partial Breast Irradiation were presented by Dr. Benitez
at the Annual Meeting of the ASBS 2007 and published in The American
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