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Cancer Straight Talk

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Cancer Straight Talk from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center brings together national experts and cancer patients to have straightforward, evidence-based conversations. Our mission is to educate and empower patients and their families to make the right decisions and live happier, healthier lives.
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Dr Elaina George is Board certified Otolaryngologist who started Peachtree ENT Center with a mission to practice state of the art medicine that is available to everyone. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Biology. She received her Masters degree in Medical Microbiology at Long Island University, and received her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Dr George completed her residency at Manhattan, Eye Ear & Throat Hospital. Her training included ...
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Dr. Sophia Edwards-Bennett, affectionately known to her patients as Dr. EB, is a Board-Certified Radiation Oncologist who gained her medical and oncology post-graduate education from Harvard’s Cancer Therapeutics and Research Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Cornell Medical College. She has been a practicing oncologist for over a decade and, is not only passionate about cancer care but, has excelled academically, authoring and co-authoring multiple peer-reviewed publicatio ...
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Lynne Taylor, educational researcher and consultant, writer, and speaker known as The Common Core Diva, re-joins Dr. George to discuss how schools are being used to change the social fabric of society and how it may be designed to enhance centralization of power at the expense of the family. Lynne Taylor has been the Common Core and National Standa…
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