When it comes to ovarian cancer, finding the right kind of doctor for your surgery impacts survival. Gynecologic oncologists are the surgeons of choice. In some studies when comparing general surgeons to gynecologic oncologist surgeons, having gynecologic oncologists improved survival rate significantly. The Foundation for Women’s Health can...
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In 2013, Angelina Jolie described her experience of being diagnosed with one of the BRCA mutations in her New York Times OpEd and prophylactic surgeries. But, five years before AJ’s “coming out,” Karen Malkin Lazarovitz @karenBRCAMTL learned she had one of the BRCA mutations. BRCA1 & BRCA2 Genes There are genes in our cells that...
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Ovarian Cancer Infographic Our previous post on patients’ experiences after diagnosis with gynecological cancers provides a backdrop to the infographic below. Thank you Mount Sinai Hospital for sharing this infographic with Medivizor. Source: Mount Sinai...
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Gynecological Cancers and GYNCSM chat The majority of Gynecological cancers–Ovarian, Uterine/Endometrial, Cervical, Fallopian tube, GTD (Gestational Trophoblastic Disease), Vaginal and Vulvar–are considered rare. Even so, through social media, women who have experienced these cancers have found each other. One opportunity to connect is a...
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“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. …live in the question.” —Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet Leeching or blood letting was part of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Instead of a lancet, leeches were placed on various parts of the body to slowly remove blood. Leech farms,...
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Angelina Jolie’s opinion piece in The New York Times , May 14, 2013, has taken social media by storm. If you haven’t heard, she shared her decision to have a double mastectomy after learning that she “carries a faulty gene BRCA1.” To learn how women and men who have had breast cancer feel about the op/ed, we turned to the Breast Cancer Social...
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