On the sprawling campus of Northwestern Medicine on the fourth floor of Prentice Women’s Hospital, a brand new Hispanic breast cancer clinic has opened, thanks to Dr. Claudia Tellez.
On the sprawling campus of Northwestern Medicine on the fourth floor of Prentice Women's Hospital, a brand new Hispanic breast cancer clinic has opened, thanks to Dr. Claudia Tellez.
The Northwestern Medical Oncologist and medical director of Hispanic Breast Cancer Clinic calls this her labor of love. It blossomed after 25 years of being a doctor and advocate, but not seeing many Hispanic patients receiving top treatment. "Hispanics represent about one-third of the population in the city of Chicago, but we see less than 10% of Hispanics here at the clinic, so there’s a big opportunity.
Dr. Tellez explains that breast cancer is the most common and deadly cancer for Hispanic women, with a large number of women impacted with cancer not coming to major medical centers. Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly"Latina women are actually being diagnosed at at younger ages with more advanced breast cancer, that’s because many are not presenting for screening. So they’re presenting with more advanced cancers and they’re presenting with more subtypes of cancer that are more aggressive," Tellez said."The belief system; it doesn’t go through machines.
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