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Name of Treatment Program: Gynecologic Cancers

Short description: The Gillette Center for Gynecologic Oncology offers women comprehensive care supported by surgical innovation, research and clinical trials.

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Many of the advanced diagnostic and clinical procedures we offer are available at few other hospitals in the country.
Multidisciplinary Patient CareWe provide individualized treatment to a large numbers of patients, offering the most advanced care for all gynecologic cancers.

Patients are usually seen within one week of referral, and receive a personalized treatment plan developed by experts from a wide array of gynecologic cancer specialties. The care team meets regularly with patients and their referring physician, to ensure good communication and the best possible coordination of care. Meet our team

Depending on the type of cancer, treatment may involve surgery, chemotherapy, radiation or a combination of these therapies.
Expertise in Diagnosing and Staging CancersAccurate diagnosis and staging are integral to each patient’s care. Our sophisticated imaging tools, combined with the expertise of pathologists who specialize in identifying gynecologic malignancies, ensure the most reliable diagnosis for each patient.

Our radiologists offer all imaging methods, including ultrasound, PET, PET/CT and MRI to diagnose and accurately stage gynecologic malignancies. We also offer promising, novel imaging approaches. Our radiologists also have extensive experience performing image-guided interventional procedures, including:

• Sonohysterography, a technique to image the uterine cavity
• Ultrasound-guided transvaginal biopsy

All specimens are evaluated by our expert gynecologic oncology team. Pathologists participate in review of all cases at the weekly multidisciplinary tumor board conferences, and they contribute to developing patient care plans.

Our Cytology Division offers advanced methods for all PAP smear screening for cervical cancer, including the newest automated technologies. We also offer HPV, (human papilloma virus), testing, an important new method of cervical cancer screening.

Genetic counseling and testing for patients and family members are offered through the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Genetics Program at our comprehensive Center for Cancer Risk Assessment. This is especially valuable for patients with a family history of ovarian cancer.

We also maintain an ovarian cancer tumor bank, supported by a grant from the Ovarian Cancer Education and Awareness Network (OCEAN). This collection enables researchers to study the genetics and biology of ovarian cancer, which may lead to effective screening tools and new targeted therapies.

A treatment plan for many gynecologic cancers will involve surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, or some combination of all three therapies. Our program offers patients a unique combination of multidisciplinary care and the most advanced medical, surgical, and radiation therapies.

Our medical therapies include:

• Intraperitoneal chemotherapy, a technique for infusing medicine directly into the abdominal cavity, improving survival and reducing side effects for women with advanced ovarian cancer
• Cancer immunotherapy, which entails vaccinating women with their own modified tumor cells or immune stimulants to bolster the body’s response to cancer therapies
• Innovative therapies for drug resistant tumors that help boost their sensitivity to chemotherapy
• Acupuncture to help manage side effects
  

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