Duke Breast Surgery

01/23/2025

We are excited to expand our services to better serve the community! Breast surgeon, Dr. Jennifer Plichta, along with her Nurse Practitioner Jackie White, will begin seeing select patients at the new location as of Thursday January 30th.

12/12/2024

12/01/2024

Amazing work by Dr. Jennifer Plichta!

Check out the online calculator:
https://mbc.ocsresearch.com/ #/Calculator

https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.22.02222

PURPOSEGiven the heterogeneity and improvement in outcomes for metastatic breast cancer (MBC), we developed a staging system that refines prognostic estimates for patients with metastatic cancer at the time of initial diagnosis, de novo MBC (dnMBC), on ...For MBC, disease variables can stratify pati...

11/28/2024

🍁 Wishing you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁

11/18/2024

This recently published Annals of Surgical Oncology article is an update to SSO's 2017 position statement on Bilateral risk-reducing mastectomy (BRRM) after a review of the literature addressing the indications, outcomes, and risks of BRRM.

Read full article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1245/s10434-024-16484-2

10/29/2024

Thank you for your support for another successful Pickle for Pink event! 💖

10/29/2024

10/27/2024

2024 Pickle for Pink Pickleball Fundraising Tournament

Our SILENT AUCTION is scheduled to CLOSE at 8pm TONIGHT- so be sure to keep bidding on some amazing prizes including:
P!nk concert tickets
Museum of Life and Science tickets
Duke Football tickets
Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club package
The Durham Hotel stay
Duke Women's Basketball tickets
Kara Lawson signed basketball
Oak Island vacation getaway
Triangle Rock Club - Durham class & passes
Whole Brain Escape experience
The Angus Barn wine collection
Second Empire Restaurant & Tavern gift card
Specialty bourbon collection
Signed Carolina Hurricanes memorabilia
DPAC VIP package and MORE!

Check out https://one.bidpal.net/pickleforpink2024/browse/all to place your bids!

All proceeds from the pickleball tournament and silent auction will support the Duke Breast Surgery and the Duke Breast program💗

10/20/2024

2024 Pickle for Pink Pickleball Fundraising Tournament at Duke Faculty Club

💖 THE PRO EXHIBITION LINEUP IS SET 💖

The pro exhibition will take place during the players party Saturday evening!

This event is OPEN to the PUBLIC and will feature delicious food trucks, cold beer, and all the pickleball you want!

Want to play? There is still space in all skill levels and age brackets! So make sure to register today!

Come enjoy a cold beer from Wicked W**d Brewing 🍻and Sister Liu's Kitchen famous dumplings 🥟!

Our SILENT AUCTION is LIVE - so be sure to keep bidding on some amazing prizes including P!nk concert tickets, Museum of Life and Science tickets, Duke Football tickets, Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club package, The Durham Hotel stay, Kara Lawson signed basketball, Oak Island vacation getaway, Triangle Rock Club - Durham class, Whole Brain Escape experience, The Angus Barn wine collection, Second Empire Restaurant & Tavern gift card, and MORE!

Check out www.PickleForPink.com for more information, to register to play, and to place your bids for the online silent auction! 💗

10/19/2024

The online auction for our 2024 Pickle for Pink Pickleball Fundraising Tournament benefiting our Duke Breast Surgery and Breast Oncology Programs is NOW OPEN and will close at 8pm on Sunday, October 27th.

Please check out the auction site: https://one.bidpal.net/pickleforpink2024/browse/all
and take home some amazing prizes including floor tickets to the upcoming P!nk concert in Raleigh, autographed sports paraphernalia, a week at Oak Island, and more!

10/12/2024

Mammograms save lives! 💖
Schedule yours today!

10/05/2024

Thank you to everyone who joined us today at What’s Best for Breasts? - A free community event exploring women’s breast health. 💞

10/04/2024

Mammograms can be used to check for breast cancer in women who have no signs or symptoms of the disease. Nearly half of all women who are 40 and older who get mammograms are found to have dense breast tissue, which can make a mammogram more difficult to interpret. For more, see our FAQs on dense breasts. https://www.cancer.gov/types/breast/breast-changes/dense-breasts #:~:text=with%20fatty%20breasts.-,Are%20dense%20breasts%20a%20risk%20factor%20for%20breast%20cancer%3F,than%20women%20with%20fatty%20breasts.

10/03/2024

Mammograms save lives! 💗