Every year, more than 80,000 women of all ages in the United States are diagnosed with a cancer of the reproductive organs.
Women also are vulnerable to many other kinds of cancer such as breast and lung cancer.
Eddie Reed, MD, is Director of the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center at West Virginia University. He received his medical degree from Yale University. He completed his specialty training at Stanford and the National Cancer Institute. He was awarded the U.S. Public Health Service Commendation Medal in 1993 for his pioneering work in the use of Taxol in ovarian cancer. He received his medical degree from Georgetown Medical School and completed his specialty training at Madigan Army Medical College and Duke University.