In The News
Hoag honors Nurse of the Year
Hoag Hospital has named Angela Mankoff, a sub intensive care unit nurse, as its 2015 Nurse of the Year. The hospital said Mankoff was recognized as a mentor to her co-workers, students and new staff members and her kind and compassionate manner. She has provided care at Hoag for more than 13 years and is … Read More
O Magazine Feature: When Genetic Testing Can Be Dangerous to Your Health
Hoag’s Hereditary Cancer Program is featured in the March 2013 issue of O Magazine: When Genetic Testing Can Be Dangerous to Your Health. The article highlights the reasons why genetic counseling is equally important as receiving a blood test to determine hereditary cancer. View the full article.
You're a Cancer Survivor: Now What?
Diagnosis of cancer can often permeate all aspects of a person’s life. Your normal daily routine can suddenly be replaced by an exhausting whirlwind of doctors’ appointments, treatments, tests, visitors, medications and insurance red tape. With all the focus and energy you’ve placed on cancer treatment, you probably never spent much time thinking about what … Read More
A Custom Fit
Dr. Lisa Guerra was featured on the Los Angeles Times and explains how the focus of breast cancer treatment has evolved and can now be tailored to each patient’s diagnoses and circumstances.
100 Hospitals & Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs
Becker’s Hospital Review has named Hoag Family Cancer Institute one of the “100 Hospitals and Health Systems With Great Oncology Programs.” Hoag is the only Orange County program to have received this designation, alongside nationally recognized oncology programs such as Cleveland Clinic and John Hopkins. Read the full article here.
Breast Cancer Update: No Cure Yet but Many Improvements
?Ideally, everything you’re about to read will soon be of no interest to you. We are getting closer to the day when there will be no need to be aware that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, when there will be a cure, and when all the information I’m about to tell you concerning new … Read More
Hoag Health: 3D Technology good for movies, great for health
Dr. Gary Levine Breast cancer doctors are discovering what James Cameron has always known: 3D is the way of the future. Traditional mammography saves lives everyday. But for women under the age of 50 and older women who have dense breast tissue, the two-dimensional images offered by mammography are limited. Dense breast tissue can obscure … Read More