100 Questions & Answers about Ovarian Cancer - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Don S. Dizon is a Professor of Medicine at Brown University. He is a medical oncologist specializing in breast and pelvic malignancies, survivorship (particularly as it pertains to sexual health for men and women with cancer), patient engagement, and social media. He grew up on the Pacific Island of Guam and completed undergraduate and medical school at the University of Rochester in New York. He trained in Internal Medicine at Yale New-Haven Hospital and completed a fellowship in Medical Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NYC. He serves as the Director of Women's Cancers and Director of Hematology-Oncology clinics at Lifespan Cancer Institute and Director of Medical Oncology at Rhode Island Hospital. Additionally, he leads Community Outreach and Engagement for The Cancer Center at Brown University and serves as Chair of Digital Engagement for SWOG Oncology Research Network and Co-Chief Medical Officer of the Global Cancer Institute. He writes an online column for the journal, The Oncologist, and for ASCO Connection. Dr. Dizon is a founding member of the Collaboration for Outcomes Using Social Media in Oncology and is active on many platforms, including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. Follow him @drdonsdizon.

Vance Broach, MD is a surgeon who specializes in the treatment of women with ovarian, uterine, cervical, vulvar, and vaginal cancers. After completing his fellowship at MSK, he joined the faculty in 2017. In addition to cultivating a busy surgical practice, Dr. Broach has a strong academic interest in improving perioperative outcomes and optimizing perioperative surgical experience. Dr. Broach is the co-director for all enhanced recovery programs at MSK. In this capacity, he works in a multidisciplinary team to optimize patients' preparation and recovery from surgery. Dr. Broach strongly believes that successful treatment incorporates not only striving for and achieving a cure or long termremission but also minimizing the side effects and listening to how his patients feel they are coping with their treatment. He is proud to be a member of a team of surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, pathologists, anesthesiologists specialized nurses, and other clinicians who partner with patients to provide the best care available.