UCSF Sisters Collaborate on Breast Cancer Pilot Study and More

For Heather Greenwood, MD and her sister, Eleni Greenwood, MD, MSc, their connection to breast cancer is very personal. Their mother, Robin Beth Greenwood, passed away from breast cancer at the age of 35. Dr. Heather Greenwood is an assistant professor of Clinical Radiology in the Breast Imaging section at the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging. Dr. Eleni Greenwood joins the faculty at the UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences in January 2020. Together, along with Amie Lee, MD and Elissa Price, MD, UCSF Radiology faculty, they conducted a pilot study of screening mammography published in Clinical Imaging.

At present, there are no guidelines regarding breast cancer screening in women under 40 prior to assisted reproductive technology (ART), meaning the prevalence of abnormal findings on screening mammography in this…