July 19, 2009 — Lisa Newman, MD Featured in CNN’s Acclaimed Black in America Series

Lisa A. Newman, MD, surgical oncologist and Director of the Breast Care Center at the University of Michigan, is highlighted in CNN’s  acclaimed Black in America series. In this documentary, anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien tells the inspiring stories of people improving the lives of African-Americans.

Dr. Newman is one of these people. Although breast cancer affects women of all races and ethnicities, Newman is searching for reasons why certain groups are more at risk for particular cancers and why there are disparities in outcomes for different patient populations.

Focusing on a particularly aggressive type of the disease – triple negative breast cancer – which affects African-American women twice as often as white women, Dr. Newman regularly travels to Ghana to find answers and a cure. Her story and her work provide hope and inspiration for the future of breast cancer treatment in America and across the world.

“Black in America” originally aired July 22 and 23, 2009.  See CNN Black in America (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/black.in.america/) for more details.

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