Types of Women's Cancer

At MacDonald Women's Hospital we provide advanced, interdisciplinary care for patients with gynecologic cancers. Meet our specialty team.

Our multidisciplinary resources from the Ireland Cancer Center enable our patients suspected or known to have gynecologic cancer to receive the newest diagnostic tests and treatments.

Types of Gynecological Caner

Gynecologic cancers—cervical, ovarian, uterine, vaginal and vulvar—affect approximately 80,000 women a year. Thanks to improved detection programs, new surgical procedures and innovative therapies, the survival rate for women with cancer continues to climb.

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H2 receptor antagonists are medicines that help decrease stomach acid. H2 receptor antagonist overdose occurs when someone accidentally or intentionally takes more than the normal or recommended amount of this medication.
Review Date: 10/29/2007

This is poisoning from swallowing hair bleach.
Review Date: 3/8/2006

This poisoning is from swallowing hair dye or tint.
Review Date: 3/8/2006

Partial or complete loss of hair is called alopecia.
Review Date: 7/18/2007

This poisoning is from breathing in (inhaling) hair spray.
Review Date: 3/8/2006

This poisoning is from swallowing hair straightener.
Review Date: 3/8/2006

This poisoning is from swallowing hair tonic.
Review Date: 3/8/2006

A hair transplant is a surgical procedure to improve baldness.
Review Date: 1/18/2007

Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) is a rare cancer of the blood. It affects B cells, a type of white blood cell (lymphocyte).
Review Date: 4/27/2007

Hallervorden-Spatz disease is a movement disorder that is passed down through families (inherited).
Review Date: 8/26/2006

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