Gynecologic Cancers

Michael L. Krychman, MD, Executive Director of the Southern California Center for Sexual Health and Survivorship Medicine, discusses managing and treating sexual health concerns in cancer patients and survivors.

For Tiffany Keller-Fritz, the safety of her unborn child, weighed against the urgent need to initiate treatment, required close collaboration between her oncologists and OB-GYN.

Heidi Donovan from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing Discusses Prioritizing Symptoms

A chronic shortage of the most commonly used taxane for ovarian cancer would add almost $9 million a month to the cost of care if half of newly diagnosed cases were affected.

Whether surgically or medically induced, early menopause forces women to deal with a host of emotional, physical, and practical issues.

Detecting hereditary cancer and providing genetic counseling can help prevent a new primary cancer and may also help to protect family members from developing cancer.

Understanding the genetic basis of breast and ovarian cancers is essential to providing patients with effective preventive and/or management strategies that can improve outcomes.

New findings demonstrate a recent increase in the annual completion rates of vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) infection.

Dr. Teresa Woodruff from Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Discusses Oncofertility Insurance Coverage

Women are now advised to have fewer screenings over their lifetime.

Now more than ever, oncology nurses need to be able to fill the knowledge gap and accurately educate their patients and the public about cancer screening tests and their frequency.

Personal perspectives from oncology nurses of abstracts presented at ASCO on research with the potential to change practice, important studies that failed to meet expectations, and topics particularly relevant to oncology nurses.

Oncology Nurse Fiona McCaughan on Struggles Facing Intraperitoneal Ovarian Cancer Treatments

Contrary to the traditionally slow pace of research adoption, the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group's Z0011 trial has seemingly changed practice overnight

A breast cancer diagnosis is a highly distressing, life-changing experience

The Emperor of All Maladies bills itself as a "biography of cancer," and while author Siddhartha Mukherjee cannot tell us precisely when cancer opened its eyes in this world...

Screening for ovarian cancer offers limited value, especially when accounting for the disease's biological diversity.