Dr. Sandhya Pruthi
Internal Medicine & Breast Cancer Prevention
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Dr. Sandhya Pruthi is an internal medicine physician and breast cancer prevention specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
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Episode # 426 • 12 Feb 2024
Breast Cancer for the PCP
Join us as Sandhya Pruthi, MD talks us through basics of breast cancer, specifically how to share a new diagnosis with a patient, the spectrum of disease from favorable to more aggressive, and the basics of what to expect with initial treatment. Feel more confident sharing a new diagnosis of breast cancer and supporting your patients through this journey.
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About
Sandhya Pruthi, M.D., received her medical degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 1990, and completed a Family Medicine residency at Mayo Clinic in 1994. She was the Director of the Breast Diagnostic Clinic at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, from January 2002 to July 2010. She is a Consultant in the Department of General Internal Medicine and a Professor of Medicine.
Dr. Pruthi's research and clinical expertise is in breast cancer prevention and management of women at increased risk for breast cancer, hereditary breast and ovarian cancer risk, and providing preoperative counseling to women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. She is the Mayo Clinic principal investigator on several national breast cancer prevention and biomarker trials aimed at reducing the risk of breast cancer. She has collaborated in other women's health trials studying integrative therapies for improving the quality of life of breast cancer survivors.
Dr. Pruthi is the Medical Director for the Division of Health Education and Content Services and serves as the Chief Medical Editor for the MayoClinic.org website. She is an Associate Medical Director for the Department of Development. Dr. Pruthi also serves as Medical Director for Continuous Professional Development Curriculum and Content Services.
Dr. Pruthi is the Past President and board of trustee member of the National Consortium of Breast Centers.
She has professional memberships from 2016-present:
• Member Mayo Clinic Cancer Center/IMP Education Committee.
• Member Cancer Control Program/Prevention Committee for Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology.
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