{"id":253835,"date":"2026-10-06T08:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=253835&preview=true&preview_id=253835"},"modified":"2026-10-06T10:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:22:09","slug":"healthy-rounds-the-breast-cancer-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2026\/10\/healthy-rounds-the-breast-cancer-breakdown\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Healthy Rounds\u2019: The Breast Cancer Breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Anthony Alessi\u2019s \u201cHealthy Rounds\u201d radio program is now a UConn Health podcast<\/a>. (Tina Encarnacion\/ UConn Health photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How much of a factor is genetics when it comes to breast cancer, and how does that inform the best treatment approach? As Dr. Daniel Morgenstern<\/a>, who specializes in breast cancer and genetics at UConn Health, explains, there’s quite a spectrum when it comes to types of breast cancer, and immunotherapy, while promising, is not effective with a majority of them. Morgenstern also discusses the evolution of breast cancer awareness, today’s recommendations on mammograms, and how personalized medicine figures into the future of breast cancer treatment.<\/p>\n

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We have our subtypes of breast cancer… and as we drill down all these molecular differences, that\u2019s where we\u2019re going to see our advances.
\n<\/span> — Dr. Daniel Morgenstern<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Listen now:<\/h3>\n