Dr. Elisa Rush Port | Women's Voices For Change

Dr. Elisa Rush Port Elisa Port, MD, FACS is a renowned breast surgeon who joined Mount Sinai as Chief of Breast Surgery and Co-Director of the Dubin Breast Center. Dr. Port is one of the busiest breast surgeons in New York State, performing hundreds of operations each year and is a leading expert in sentinel-node biopsy. Her research has been widely published in numerous journals, including the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Annals of Surgery, and Cancer Research.

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Breast Health: Breast Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Both Save Lives

By Dr. Elisa Rush Port

Prevention and early detection are important weapons in the fight against breast cancer. In October 2015, Dr. Elisa Rush Port wrote about the importance of mammograms. Today, she addresses the challenges of prevention.

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Ductal Carcinoma-in-situ (DCIS): One Breast Surgeon’s Perspective on the Latest in Research and Treatment

By Dr. Elisa Rush Port

Whenever big news in breast cancer is reported, those of us who are in the thick of it, the physicians actually taking care of women with breast cancer, brace ourselves for the flurry of phone calls, emails and texts from our patients wanting to know one thing: “How does this new development apply to me?”

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Diagnosing Breast Cancer: The Quest for a “Single Bullet”

By Dr. Elisa Rush Port

Since the 1970s and '80s we have seen significant progress toward the goal in cancer treatment—development of a sniper’s rifle with a laser scope and a single bullet that zeroes in precisely on the enemy cells.

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On Mammograms and Their Value: A Breast Surgeon Weighs In

By Dr. Elisa Rush Port

When it comes to recommending yearly mammograms and affirming that mammograms save lives, let’s stop getting hung up on technicalities. Let’s stop re-crunching the numbers until they give us a different answer, and accept what the data demonstrates: From age 40—not age 50—yearly mammograms save lives.