Tehran (ISNA) – The director of Johns Hopkins Breast Center at Green Spring Station noted that breast cancer survivorship was very important in the U.S. because the rate of the cure was high and the number of survival was really increasing.
Dr. Fariba Asrari is the director of Johns Hopkins Breast Center at Green Spring Station. She received her medical degree with honors from Shiraz Medical School in Iran and completed Internal medicine residency training at affiliated Hospitals of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She then completed her second residency training in Radiation Oncology at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. She holds board certifications in both Internal Medicine and Radiation Oncology from the American Board of Internal Medicine and Radiology.
“The role of mental and psychological care after the cancer treatment is very crucial,” says Dr. Fariba Asrari, the treasurer of Mid-Atlantic Society of Radiation Oncologists.
“Definitely by scientific research, it has been shown that even breast cancer patients with metastases, if they are living in a better state of mental health and they have had the adequate psychosocial support they survive double than the patients that do not have, so its increase their survival to double,” she added.
She is an active member of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology as well as the American Medical Association, American Radium Society, Mid-Atlantic Society of Radiation Oncologists and American Society of Clinical Oncology. She is the treasurer of Mid-Atlantic Society of Radiation Oncologists.
Dr. Asrari said, “Modern technologies, such as telemedicine and e-health, can be adopted to improve remote prevention and care, encourage the use of advanced therapies and benefit from the Cross-border Healthcare Directive, so there are lots of focus on how to help a patient to go back to normal life rather than just to be a cancer patient and to be a productive member of society for that reason”.
She also has received 2005 Thomas Fercoit Memorial Professional of The Year Award from “The ARC of Baltimore” in appreciation of her dedicated care of individuals with developmental disabilities.