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Survivors Teaching Students® brings survivors and caregivers into medical education programs to educate future healthcare providers by sharing stories of diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship, along with facts about ovarian cancer.
2 dni temu · Ovarian cancer is diagnosed in 54 U.S. patients each day, according to the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance. To help future physicians and other medical professionals recognize the disease’s warning signs, which are often misdiagnosed as common and less dangerous conditions, St. Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness collaborates with area medical schools in a program called Survivors Teaching Students.
Survivors Teaching Students (STS) STS enables survivors to speak directly to future medical professionals. This innovative program saves lives, one presentation at a time: helping future medical professionals diagnose the disease at its earliest, most treatable stages.
In 1999, when Janice was diagnosed and treated for stage 3 ovarian cancer at a community hospital, her doctor didn’t give her much hope. Janice, 38, had three young children: a 12-year-old daughter and 10-year-old twins.
OCRA is the world’s leader in fighting ovarian cancer, battling the disease from all fronts: in the lab and on Capitol Hill, and through innovative programs to support patients and their families. Survivors Teaching Students brings volunteers into classrooms of rising health professionals & 212-268-1002 % ocrahope.org info@ocrahope.org
Survivors Teaching Students is a practical and innovative volunteer project in which volunteers with ovarian cancer educate clinical students and work towards ending the problem of late diagnosis.
Jane has volunteered since 2005 with the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance’s “Survivors Teaching Students: Saving Women’s Lives.” This national program involves ovarian cancer survivors speaking about their symptoms and medical stories to third-year medical students.
