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Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz, an expert in anxiety disorders and professor of psychiatry and psychology at Carolina, offers five tips for coping with holiday-related stress.

“We don’t have to like the holidays, and they might not be stress free, but going into them thinking, ‘This is temporary, I can get through this,’ instead of “Oh, God, this is going to be awful,’ prepares you to get through them,” Abramowitz says. read more
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An expert on new digital mammography techniques that can be used to possibly save more women from breast cancer,  Etta Pisano, M.D. directs UNC-Chapel Hill's breast imaging lab and is conversant on the latest treatment strategies. Find more experts

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UNC researcher wins grant to study breast cancer tumor biology E-mail
Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Melissa Troester, Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been awarded a two-year, $300,000 grant from the Avon Foundation.

Troester, a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, will lead a study titled “Characterizing Variation in Breast Cancer Microenvironment.” Her co-investigator is Keith Amos, M.D., assistant professor of surgery in the UNC School of Medicine and a UNC Lineberger faculty member.

The study aims to better understand the biology of normal tissue adjacent to breast tumors and how it changes with age. The findings could help identify treatment strategies and explain why some breast conservation surgeries, particularly among young women, more commonly result in disease recurrence.

UNC Lineberger contact: Dianne Shaw, (919) 962-5905, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it