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Oncologist Turned Caregiver Offers Guidance About Women's Cancers
Darlene Dobkowski, Managing Editor for CURE® magazine, has been with the team since October 2020 and has covered health care in other specialties before joining MJH Life Sciences. She graduated from Emerson College with a Master’s degree in print and multimedia journalism. In her free time, she enjoys buying stuff she doesn’t need from flea markets, taking her dog everywhere and scoffing at decaf.
Ryan McDonald, Associate Editorial Director for CURE®, has been with the team since February 2020 and has previously covered medical news across several specialties prior to joining MJH Life Sciences. He is a graduate of Temple University, where he studied journalism and minored in political science and history. He considers himself a craft beer snob and would like to open a brewery in the future. During his spare time, he can be found rooting for all major Philadelphia sports teams. Follow Ryan on Twitter @RMcDonald11 or email him at rmcdonald@curetoday.com.
In this episode of the “CURE Talks Cancer” podcast, we spoke with a gynecologic cancer expert about how her sister’s journey with ovarian cancer provided her with a different perspective that would lead to raising awareness for others.
Dr. Valena Wright has spent the last 25 years specializing in the treatment of gynecologic cancers. All that experience, however, did not prepare her for when her sister, Debbie, would be diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
“When you study and practice all of these years, and a member of your family is diagnosed with ovarian cancer — which is the most serious or difficult to treat — I got to see things from a different perspective,” Wright, who is the director of gynecologic oncology at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, said in an interview with CURE®. “And I learned so much from being with my sister during her battle with ovarian cancer. I was disappointed in some of the correspondence or interactions that she had with the medical system.”
That disappointment led Wright to share her sister’s story, along with other women, in a recently released book, “It’s Time You Knew.” The reason for writing the book, according to Wright, is to raise awareness and help others avoid ever having to deal with a cancer diagnosis.
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