Cancer Screening and Advances in Early Detection (Webinar Recording)

Even with the best preventive healthy habits, it’s important to get regular checkups and screenings. Cancer screenings are recommended for several of the most common forms of cancer, and they can be critical in detecting cancers at earlier stages and improving the possibilities for treatment. 

Lisa Lowe-Hiller, MD, MPH of Scripps and Qualcomm Health Center, and Sana Raoof, MD, PhD of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center share advice to better understand cancer screenings, when to have them and why they are important to your health. They also talk about innovations and the future of early detection and diagnosis of cancer.

Scripps and Qualcomm Health Center’s Lisa Lowe-Hiller, MD, MPH completed her medical degree at the University of California, Davis and did her residency and fellowship at UC San Diego and Scripps Mercy Hospital.

Dr. Lowe spent many years in hospital emergency room and urgent care settings, treating acute and chronic diseases of cardiac, pulmonary and gastrointestinal systems.

She has a special interest in infectious and other respiratory diseases, sports medicine, women's health, nutritional health, aging and integrative medicine.

Sana Raoof, MD, PhD of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Department of Radiation Oncology completed her MD-PhD at Harvard Medical School.

She subsequently became involved in research on molecular cancer screening with multi-cancer early detection technologies and now serves as scientific advisor to Grail and Exact Sciences. She is a member of the American Cancer Society Guideline Development Group for Cancer Screenings and a member of the National Multi-Cancer Early Detection Consortium.

For her scientific and clinical contributions, she was named on Forbes 2020 list of "30 under 30" in Healthcare.