USA Africa Dialogue Series - The challenges of fighting gynecological cancers: Gwen died on Monday at the age of 61, after her fight with endometrial cancer

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"Gwen died on Monday at the age of 61, after her fight with endometrial cancer, also referred to as uterine cancer. It is one of several gynecological cancers women face that sometimes get less attention."

HARI SREENIVASAN: Dr. Lu, is there a gap in women seeing symptoms, but not necessarily reporting them, or not even knowing that they are symptoms?

DR. KAREN LU: I think there's two gaps.

I think there's a gap where women don't know that there are early symptoms of these cancers, and so don't recognize them. And then there's also a gap when they report these symptoms. Sometimes, they can be nonspecific. And certainly, with ovarian cancer, women will present with bloating or their bellies will be bigger, very nonspecific pain.

And, sometimes, physicians will dismiss these symptoms and not fully work up and think about ovarian cancer or other gynecologic cancers as a cause.

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