# Elisa Port: Discuss THE BREAST ADVICE Book

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Podcast: [Ground Truths](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ground-truths-6775458)
Published: 2026-06-26T15:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://erictopol.substack.com/p/elisa-port-and-eric-topol-discuss
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## Resource

“I may be the expert in cancer, but you are the expert in you.”—Elisa Port, MD Ground Truths is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Dr. Elisa Port is Professor of Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Chief of Breast Surgery for the Mount Sinai Health System; Director of the Dubin Breast Center; and Director of the Center of Excellence for Breast Cancer at the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center, a NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is remarkably well qualified to provide guidance for prevention and treatment of breast cancer, and runs a model program at Mount Sinai in New York (←we’ll get into why I say that). She has just published a terrific book that centers around the concept of informed optimism . Many of her patient stories are integrated. We tried to cover the waterfront during our conversation including: — 4 Ws for reduction of risk: weight, walking, wine, and working out (especially in Nature, “green exercise”) —Only 10-12% of women will ever develop breast cancer during their lives —Role of adipocytes (fat cells), aka estrogen and inflammation factories —Misinformation (underlying the need for this book) —Pervasive myths of magic supplements, with safety issues of unregulated intravenous drips and others when analyzed turned out to be crushed up, dried house plants —Total body MRI: mixed results from her patients —Breast cancer on the rise in young women. Dr. Port relates about recent patients diagnosed in their 20s. Some without BRCA or other pathogenic mutation. Why? —Mammograms in non-dense breasts pick up 80-90% of breast cancer. It’s the 40-50% women with dense breasts, which the scan is trying to find a polar bear in a snowstorm, is a problem. The pr…

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