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Janie Grumley she is the director at the Margie Peterson Breast Cancer Center at Providence st. John's in Santa Monica right here in Los Angeles and she's also the director of 1:08 breast oncology at the John Wayne Cancer Institute she's also associate professor of surgery at John Wayne Cancer Institute as well okay so I'm really excited to have Dr. Grumley on here because you know 1:20 we actually got to train together when we were gonna see you together and you had you have a you make my training look like peanuts compared to all the training that you had I mean yeah you went to Pepperdine you went to you did 1:31 general surgery at LA County USC you became a chief resident there and that's when I saw when I got to work with you and that was some fun times I ran a really tight ship and it was amazing then you were then you actually 1:43 went on and became a surgical breast oncology fellow at USC yeah USC I remember when I wasn't doing plastic surgery they were they were coming up with all kinds of great innovative techniques to deal with breast cancer versus the kind of the old-school way of just kind of like wiping everything out but so I mean really I'm just so excited to have you on here especially for this month to talk about breast cancer Janie welcome to the show 2:04 thank you so much I'm excited to be here it's been a long time since we've gotten to hang out and so I'm excited this is a new position for me so I'm here I've been here in Santa Monica for about a year and yeah I think we're building something pretty exciting you guys are and it's amazing Santa Monica is such a very a very big place and there's a lot of need for for someone to do what you're doing can you tell us more about what you're doing specifically there and the Margie Petersen breast cancer center 2:32 yeah so I think our main goal is really obviously to take care of the patients breast cancer has become so complex it is not just about the surgery it's not just about the medicines it's everything all encompassing and so there's just such a need for multidisciplinary approach to breast cancer but there's nothing more frustrating for patients at least from what I hear is that I have to go here and then I have to go there and I don't know if my doctors are talking to each other and they're just this very disjointed approach to breast cancer care that's that's a key concept and I think a lot of people a lot of listeners need to 3:06 understand that when I when I was in training at USC and I remember we would go to these tumor boards and I'm like alright well isn't there just like a breast cancer doctor and that just one doctor that just does it all right no 3:18 there's like someone who who looks at your genetics there's someone who looks at if you need chemotherapy or some radiation these are all different and then your actual breast surgeon and then if you need breast reconstruction your plastic surgeon it's like all of these people have to talk to each other yeah and it's like I can't there's probably very few other disease processes that 3:43 are as complicated and involved as breast cancer I don't I'm sure there are some out there that are just as complicated but breast cancer is up there in terms of your number specialties that have to work together absolutely to do the job right yeah so I mean most of cancer is very multidisciplinary but I think breast cancer led the way in that kind of a team approach to care and it was the first to start neoadjuvant chemotherapy first so doing chemotherapy before you do surgery and how do you make those decisions and that's like to shrink the tumor right right okay so it's not and sometimes now it's to do to get a better outcome for patients so it's not kind of you can't operate in these silos where I'm gonna make a decision because somebody else's decision might affect what you're gonna do and so for you know cancer patients for breast cancer patients when they call we're like well we're gonna have you see all these doctors and they're kind of wondering why do I have to see three different doctors in one day because if you don't really like the idea of radiation that limits what I can do when it comes to surgery so we have to get that very clear picture as to what the plan is for that patient so we take let's let's break it down so say a woman has a lump right she's she's 45 she's got a lump in her breast and she doesn't know what to do what should she do she has she you know her mom actually got breast cancer but not you know maybe when she was 70 years old yeah yeah so obviously she needs to be worked up she needs to be seen and that's probably the first area of frustration for most women is if you wake up and you feel something what do you do with that so the typical course is that you call up your primary care doctor they said okay I'll see you in two weeks and then they see you and then they're like okay now I'm gonna order imaging I'm gonna send you over here and then it takes another two we see at that yeah the entire time you think you have cancer right horrified the majority of women who have a lump that they feel don't actually have cancer but you're spending four weeks of your time frustrated about it so the first thing that we actually implemented is something called the breast health clinic so we actually have a dedicated nurse practitioner that works with our radiologists okay so they can actually come in it's like urgent care for breast you don't need a referral from your primary care doctor you'll pick up the phone and call the number and to say hey I have a rest lump I'd like to be seen because if you just go to an Imaging Center they won't see you right you need a clinician to feel and right there whatever right the order and so we've taken that out of the loop that's incredible is anybody else doing that not that I know of here okay and that's part of what I brought from Seattle cuz when I went up there it was a model in which they had actually set up there and they've actually published on how much more efficient care is right now 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