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AN INDEPENDENT SUPPLEMENT BY MIA MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS GROUP TO THE SUN SENTINEL

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015

EXECUTIVE SUITE
By Z
According the U.S. Bureau of Labor

helps us provide customized, precision

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center,
industries. Government economists project

Once we develop the research, we share it

actually developing cancer treatments.
downtown medical center complex. It is
academic and private sector environments.
care, comprehensive research,
full-scale oncology services. Over the past
seven years, the center expanded from one
healthcare than the clinical side of the

Shyroll Morris,
Answer this riddle: What industry sector
receives nearly $3 trillion in annual
expenditures? Employs more than 16
million people? And represents 20-percent
of the American economy? If you answered
the healthcare industry, you are right. This

landscape. “Healthcare is a service
industry. You must understand the

West and Coral Springs.
Morris is charged with guaranteeing

failed, and has since passed. However,
success--despite a one-year prognosis--to
Florida alumna noted. “We experience
double digit growth every year. So, my job

and more, she said the cancer center is the

Log on to www.Sylvester.org

a Stage 4 Breast Cancer Survivor
By Denise St. Patric -Bell, PhD
I was diagnosed 7 years ago
with stage 4-breast cancer. I had no
symptoms, no breast lumps and no pain.
The lump was actually found under my

some say oh I had it two or three years ago,
but so many things can develop in that

I could not have made it
without my husband, my sister, and my
breast, my hip and my spine.

process?

me. He then sent me to the right oncologist
who decided not to treat me with chemo
but with the aromatase inhibitor Femara. I

people, when you hear about cancer, your
you had consistent annual mammograms,
in the previous year nothing was
detected?
Yes. Cancer cells lie dormant

the test results seven women came with

provide women in the community?

Patricia Johnson
Johnson, stage 4-breast cancer survivor

your armpits as well. Tests revealed that I
had cancer in 17 lymph nodes.

her miraculous story of faith, strength,

cancer?
No, there is not. And that is

this interview, Ms. Johnson was preparing
their family, they do not have anything to
worry about. Even women who do get
detected?

call her and tell her I had an appointment,
she called me to remind me and let me

was always one of my posse there to
support me. You cannot get through this
without a support system and that is one of
the reasons why I go to hospitals and
treatment centers to be a support for those

street, I educate them about breast cancer.
The most important is doing the

saving your life.