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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.
- Empowering Survivorship: Ovarian Cancer Stories - Ovarian Cancer ... - OCRA
Explore ovarian cancer survivor stories as they get real,...
- Empowering Survivorship: Ovarian Cancer Stories - Ovarian Cancer ... - OCRA
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.
8 cze 2021 · Explore ovarian cancer survivor stories as they get real, sharing their experience with navigating ovarian cancer, along with tips and resources that helped them during their most challenging moments.
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.
7 maj 2024 · What began as a proactive measure, a risk-reducing hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy upon discovering a familial BRCA mutation turned into an unexpected revelation: early-stage ovarian cancer. Following standard frontline chemotherapy in the spring of 2014, she transitioned into a monitoring phase.
14 maj 2024 · Deborah Polinsky, program facilitator and ovarian cancer survivor, tells News 12 that this program shows medical students the human side of medicine, noting “They may not remember our names or our faces, but they may remember something about our story.”
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.