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The Breast Cancer Foundation of Arizona was established in 1992 to serve as a not for profit organization to benefit the common good.  |
About Us
Our GoalCurrently, The Breast Cancer Foundation of Arizona serves as a forum where important current technological advances in breast cancer, leading research efforts and esteemed professionals who are directly impacting these technologies are brought together and given a community based venue to present information to the community. Through the establishment of The Breast Evaluation Center, a clinic dedicated to early breast cancer detection the concept of The Breast Cancer Foundation of Arizona was born. The idea that a charity supported through donations for those in need of breast cancer support and direction as exemplified by The American Cancer Society gives root the possibility and thus the present and future of The Breast Cancer Foundation of Arizona was planned. Marion A. Jabczenski, M.D. pursues the goal of The Breast Cancer Foundation of Arizona to “set the bar” very high in this community for a superlative entity of breast cancer scholarship and technology. About The CompanyThe Breast Evaluation Center was established in 1982 by Marion A. Jabczenski, M.D. as one of the first clinics dedicated to breast disease and diagnosis. Dr. Jabczenski focused his clinic to the intricate specialty by continually availing himself and his co-workers to become versed and educated in every practical and intellectual aspect of the disease and it's detection. The Phoenix community in 1982 did not have a clinic such as The Breast Evaluation Center devoted singularly to mammography and breast cancer detection. In an unusual approach for a radiologist, Dr. Jabczenski opened The Breast Evaluation Center with the intent to have a medical practice devoted to breast disease and diagnosis and which also allowed the patient full access to both the doctor and their x-ray films and test results. In his clinic, emphasis is directed toward two neglected areas of women's health care. First, direct patient contact and participation, an unfamiliar but statistically proven process integral to the success of early diagnosis and early detection of breast cancer to increase the survival chance of the patient. Second, research for the advancement of breast cancer detection through improvement of imaging techniques was and is a life-long passion Dr. Jabczenski has ardently pursued. The dedicated and focused approach by Dr. Jabczenski to pursue mastery of this multifarious disease caused him to realize that in order to effect a reduction in breast cancer occurrences a determined effort to find what initiates breast cancer to form in an individual is crucial. The uncomplicated belief that a main component integral to the discovery of the genesis of breast cancer is through the somewhat more complicated scientific method of research is the result of his clinic experience. Thus the research and education goals of The Breast Cancer Foundation of Arizona are rooted in the philosophy that research requires a methodical concept where a beginning inquiry leads to a hypothesis using unabridged information gathering, interpretation of data, analysis and a consonance of suppositions. About The FounderMarion Jabczenski, M.D., with his colleague, Judith Sipes, R.T.M., established The Breast Cancer Foundation of Arizona in 1992 to formalize and enlarge the personal philanthropy Dr. Jabczenski had begun in 1982 when he established The Breast Evaluation Center. The long list of accomplishments began after his arrival in Phoenix after the completion of his residency in Boston, Massachusetts at the University Group Residency program that included Harvard, Tufts and Boston University hospitals and the MIT physics program. In 1964 Dr. Jabczenski, along with his colleagues in Maricopa County, founded the first doctor's owned medical plan in Arizona that provided health insurance for the community and was called The Maricopa Foundation for Medical Care. He also began the Phoenix Radiologic Society in 1964, which was the first professional society for radiologists in Phoenix. In 1964 his Radiology Board certification was finalized and his first paper was published in "Patient Care" magazine on chest diseases. In 1963, Dr Jabczenski began working on a paper titled "Pendant Mammography: A New Approach to an Old Technique", which was published in 1970 in "The Canadian Journal of Medicine". Throughout the 1970s Dr. Jabczenski raised his family and served on The Chamber of Commerce, while working as a radiologist at The Maricopa County Medical Center. In 1976 he was elected to be a Fellow to the American Board of Radiology. The 1980's began with an earnest dedication to the detection of breast cancer when The Breast Evaluation Center was established. With a scientific approach to ductal imaging, Dr. Jabczenski studied with Dr. Otto Sartorius, a renowned breast surgeon in Santa Barbara, California to master the technique of ductography. His interest led him to master the technique of ductography and to develop the curved wire Jabczenski Ductogram Cannula produced and sold by Cook Incorporated, a worldwide medical products company. In 1986-1990 Dr. Jabczenski was included in a study sponsored by Harvard University for the purpose of establishing nomenclature in naming the diagnostic feature characteristics of breast cancer in mammography. This body of work was the foundation for CAD and light scanning as universally recognized cancer detection methods. While attending a presentation by Dr. William Ecklund in Lake Louise, California, Dr. Jabczenski learned of a technique to improve vizualization of the breast with implants. He developed his own prototype, which used a curved polymer videx compression paddle that was retrofit to the mammogram machine. The Ecklund method was later patented by Dr. Ecklund and incorporated into the Alpha IQ mammography unit manufactured by Instrumentarium Imaging. Dr. Jabczenski is a Charter Founder of Bosom Buddies, a local breast cancer support group in which he is still an active director on their board. He is a member of the National Consortium of Breast Centers and The International Society of Breast Ultrasound as well as being the local director for an osteoporosis support group. He has attended The Radiologic Society of North America annually since the 1970s, devoting the full week to radiology seminars in Chicago, Illinois. At the December 2000 meeting of the International Society of Anti-Aging, Dr. Jabczenski presented his paper, "Breast Artery Calcification on Mammogram: a Marker of Heart Disease" which is part of an ongoing data collection with the Arizona Heart Institute. The FutureLike other charities in this community, funding through donations, raffles, auctions and other events are the means to raise the important dollars to fund these organizations. With the explosion of information provided through the genome project, the tools to forward definitive answers of the genetic and synthetic causes of breast cancer are now available. We at the Breast Cancer Foundation of Arizona, are very grateful for all the charitable donations raised through the fund raising efforts of many individuals and activities that have helped us in the past and continue to do so. As a recipient of many generous charitable donations, our cancer charity is committed to continued participation with our fellow charity foundations so that we all might benefit from increased research. Board of Directors
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