New brochure helps explain treatment for gynecologic cancers
... their families about the treatments available for gynecologic cancers. "Being diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer can be an overwhelming experience and making sense of the different treatments available isn'...US FDA grants full approval to DOXIL(R) following submission of phase III data
...Cancer Ovarian cancer is the most deadly form of gynecologic cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 22,220 American women are expected to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2005 and more than 16,000 of these women are expected to die from the disease. The Ovarian Cancer National All...Advances in Uterine Leiomyoma Research: 2nd NIH International Congress
...lth care communities. Fibroids are the most common gynecologic neoplasm in women of reproductive age and the leading cause of hysterectomy in the United States. Topics to be covered include Clinical Experiences and Therapeutic Strategies, Epidemiology, Clinical Trials, Pathogenesis of Smooth Muscle Tumors, and M...Drug that hinders blood vessel growth under study in ovarian cancer
... them stay that way, says Dr. Sharad Ghamande, MCG gynecologic oncologist and a principal investigator on the study. In the new study, participants will give themselves daily subcutaneous injections of the drug for four weeks, followed by seven days off. The cycle can be repeated up to 11 times if the disease r...African-American women with endometrial cancer have more aggressive cancer than Caucasian women
...oup that coordinates most of the large therapeutic gynecologic cancer studies in the U.S. In this study, the survival rates for 168 African-American patients and 997 Caucasian patients with Stage III, Stage IV or recurrent endometrial cancer were analyzed and compared. This analysis showed that African-Americ...