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Assistant Professor of Radiology
Expertise: Breast imaging, breast cancer, doctor-patient communication
Bio: Dione Farria is Co-Director for the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD) and an assistant professor of Radiology, Division of Diagnostic Radiology, Section of Breast Imaging. She is certified by the American Board of Radiology and American Board of Preventitive Medicine. In 2001, she was named Fellow by the Society of Brest Imaging.
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Education:
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M.D. at Harvard Medical School
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M.S. in Public Health at University of California
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Breaking barriers
WUSM doctor battles racial inequities of breast cancer deaths
Sept. 1,
2006 --
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| Photo by Robert Boston |
| Farria (left) studies patient radiological images with resident Jennifer Demertzis. |
Although breast cancer is more common among white women, African-American women are far more likely to die of the disease. What accounts for this fundamental racial imbalance? Dione Farria, assistant professor of radiology, knows all too well: African-American women are less likely to get mammograms that can detect breast cancer early when it is more easily treated.
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Vital for medicine
Clinical trials keep medical science moving forward
May 19,
2006 -- Clinical trials are vital to the future of medicine, says WUSM radiologist Dione Farria. The School of Medicine constantly offers a variety of clinical trials to gauge the effectiveness of new treatments or medications. Some trials can even save lives.
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Reaching more women
Mobile mammography goes digital thanks to grant to Siteman Cancer Center
Oct. 31,
2005 -- Soon it will be possible for twice as many underserved women to be screened for breast cancer because of a grant to Dione Farria, M.D., and Katherine Jahnige Mathews, M.D., of the Siteman Cancer Center at the School of Medicine.
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Digital detection
For many women, digital mammography better at detecting breast cancers
Sept. 16,
2005 -- A new study that enrolled nearly 50,000 women has revealed that digital mammography can detect breast cancer better than conventional film-based mammography in certain groups of women.
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