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4.27.22 | Diagnostics
Ovarian Cancer Screening: More than a Pelvic Exam

SWHR is hosting a series of public forums to share educational information about the importance and value of innovative diagnostics throughout the lifespan and across disease states and conditions. This event discusses how to improve health outcomes for diseases and conditions that exclusively affect women, with a focus on ovarian cancer.

Young adult woman smiling wearing a hat and sunglasses 4.12.22 | Women's Health Perspective
Putting the Freeze on Cancer Pain

Esther Melvin, breast cancer patient advocate, shared her health journey about receiving a stage 4 metastatic breast cancer diagnosis.

1.26.22 | Diagnostics
How Vaccines and Screening Can Prevent Cervical Cancer

1.13.22 | Diagnostics
How Vaccines and Screening Can Prevent Cervical Cancer

SWHR hosts a series of public forums to share educational information about the importance and value of innovative diagnostics throughout the lifespan and across disease states and conditions. This event discusses how to improve health outcomes for diseases and conditions that exclusively affect women, with a focus on cervical cancer.

11.24.21 | Policy
SWHR Provides Input on USPSTF Draft Research Plan on Cervical Cancer Screening

7.20.21 | Policy
SWHR Comments to NCI on Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion

12.8.20 | Research and Clinical Trials
SWHR Supports FDA Recommendations to Include Younger Women in Breast Cancer Research

The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) submitted comments in response to a newly released U.S. Food and Drug Administration […]

10.21.16 | Cancer
Lung Cancer – What’s My Risk? What Are My Treatment Options?

Lung cancer is a life-changing diagnosis that effects one in every 17 women.

5.24.16 | Cancer
Does Lung Cancer Have a Gender Bias?

The American Lung Association surveyed 1,000 American women to learn their perceptions about which cancers impact women.

5.17.16 | Cancer
Cancer Advocates Press for Swift Implementation of the Breast Cancer Patient Education Act of 2015

Advocates and experts fighting for improved treatments for invasive breast cancer today called for swift action by Congress and the Obama Administration to implement the provisions of the Breast Cancer Patient Education Act of 2015 (BCPEA).