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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Aarskog syndrome is an inherited disease characterized by short stature, facial abnormalities, musculoskeletal, and genital anomalies.
Review Date: 3/13/2006

Aase syndrome is a rare disorder that involves anemia and certain joint and skeletal deformities.
Review Date: 7/2/2007

An aneurysm is when a blood vessel becomes abnormally large or balloons outward. The abdominal aorta is a large blood vessel that supplies blood to your abdomen, the pelvis, and legs.
Review Date: 12/7/2006

ABO incompatibility is a reaction of the immune system that occurs if two different and not compatible blood types are mixed together.
Review Date: 3/13/2007

A complete abortion is an abortion (induced or spontaneous) in which the entire fetus and placenta have passed out of the uterus before the 20th week of pregnancy.See also: Miscarriage
Review Date: 8/17/2007

Elective or therapeutic abortion is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy.
Review Date: 9/19/2006

In an incomplete abortion, parts of the fetus or placental material stay inside the uterus.See also:Complete abortionInfected abortionMiscarriage
Review Date: 11/8/2006

An infected abortion occurs when an infection develops in the material from the fetus or placenta or the lining of the uterus (endometrium).See also:Incomplete abortionInevitable abortion
Review Date: 11/8/2006

A threatened abortion is a condition that suggests a miscarriage might take place before the 20th week of pregnancy.
Review Date: 8/17/2007

An abscess is a localized collection of pus in any part of the body that is surrounded by swelling (inflammation).
Review Date: 9/25/2006

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