Nevada Newsmakers

Host: Sam Shad
Co-Host: Larry Matheis, Executive Director, Nevada State Medical Association

Guests:
Preventative Cancer Surgery: Tom McCoy, Director of Government Relations-American Cancer Society
Dr. James Harris – Medical Director Saint Mary’s Center for Cancer
Jennifer Denoo, has the gene that causes breast cancer
Pundits:
VA Outreach Part 1 Alicia Adams, Operations Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) Project Manager from VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System


"Breast cancer is about 87% chance that I would get breast cancer, with this mutation, and I’m a mom and I have three kids and it’s a chance I wasn’t willing to take. "

- Jennifer Denoo who has the gene that can cause breast cancer and chose to have a double mastectomy to ensure that she would never get breast cancer.