Peter E. Schwartz, MD, escorts a patient in Yale Physicians Building.
“Our multidisciplinary approach means that our patients benefit from the best medical minds coming together to determine the optimum course of treatment for gynecologic cancer. Supported by a team of medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, surgeons, oncology nurses and researchers, our patients can face their disease from a position of strength.”
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Each gynecologic cancer is unique, with different signs and symptoms, different risk factors and different prevention strategies. All women are at risk for gynecologic cancers, and risk increases with age. A woman who is experiencing abdominal or pelvic pain should see her doctor. Symptoms may be caused by something other than cancer, but an evaluation by a physician is the only way to know for sure.
At Smilow Cancer Hospital, gynecologic oncology services unite a multidisciplinary team of clinicians. Our physicians are board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology and in the subspecialty of gynecologic oncology, which brings together surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
Conditions we treat:
- Precancerous changes of the vulva, vagina and cervix, including dysplasia and carcinomas in situ
- Premalignant changes of the endometrium, including adenomatous hyperplasias
- Vulvar cancer
- Vaginal cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Uterine cancer
- Fallopian tube cancer
- Ovarian cancer and gestational trophoblastic disease
- Soft-tissue tumors of the pelvis
Diagnosis:
We have a full-service colposcopy program to help diagnose premalignant and malignant reproductive diseases, and we offer laser, loop electrical excision procedure (LEEP), and cold-knife conizations for cervical cancer and, in selected patients, for vulvar and vaginal cancer.
