Let’s Talk About It: Ovarian Cancer – Fear of Recurrence
A diagnosis of recurrent ovarian cancer can bring many uncertainties and anxieties. Our discussion, lead by Julie Larson LCSW, talks through how you can learn to calm your fears.
Let’s Talk About It: Ovarian Cancer – Cultivating Resilience
Resilience is the ability to recover and adapt in the face of stress. Resilience is also a term that refers to a number of skills and characteristics that contribute to our ability to face hardship. Together we can work to name and strengthen the qualities that not only resonate but that you are discovering within […]
Let’s Talk About It: Ovarian Cancer – Healing the Relationship With Your Body
Cancer treatment changes the relationship a survivor has with their body. Surgical scars, hair loss, changes in sensitivity, discomfort or pain, and ongoing side effects can be overwhelming and emotional to experience. Feelings of loss, disconnect, anger, and shame are normal to have but can be uncomfortable or complicated to navigate. We discuss the path […]
Facing Mortality
Following a new diagnosis of breast cancer, older women often have worse outcomes when it comes to their breast cancers and receive less than standard therapy than younger women. A diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer or recurrent ovarian or uterine cancer comes with an array of emotions and concerns. Dr. Anne Kane discusses the implications […]
Rare Ovarian Cancers
Dr. Amanda Nickles Fader, Director of the Center for Rare Gynecologic Cancers at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, discusses new research on and treatment of rare types of ovarian cancer, with a focus on low grade serous and clear cell ovarian cancers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fnLum4Gw_0
Let’s Talk About It: Ovarian Cancer – Integrative Medicine
Eugenie Spiguel, a Nurse Practitioner at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses integrative medicine and how it can be used in ovarian cancer treatment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sUN7fot9-A
What Cancer Patients Need to Know about COVID-19 Vaccines
As the COVID-19 Vaccine becomes accessible throughout the United States, many questions have arisen, especially for cancer patients. In this webinar, Dr. Joshua A. Hill from Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center, a physician who specializes in the treatment of infectious diseases in cancer patients, answers the most common vaccine related questions and explains the vaccine […]
Topic-Driven Round Table on Ovarian Cancer: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Relationships and Cancer
Women with ovarian cancer can join Julie Larson, LCSW and peers via video or phone to talk about topics such as “Relationships and Cancer.”
All in the Family: Hereditary Risk for Gynecologic Cancer
Knowing and understanding your inherited genetics is important for ovarian and uterine cancer patients. Dr. Melissa Frey, gynecologic oncologist at Weill Cornell Medicine, discusses how genetic factors affect women with ovarian and uterine cancer and influence treatment decisions, with a particular focus on BRCA1 & 2 and Lynch Syndrome. This webinar was being put on […]