a request: survivors stories for interviews (per Women's Oncology Research & Dialogue Newsletter)

WORD is looking for new women to be interviewed about their journey and fight against gynecologic cancers.  If you would be willing to work with us - please contact us soon!

Observations after 5 years and 1,500 stories on HealthNewsReview.org (see note patients/consumers)

Note: these questions/considerations may be valuable for patients/consumers as well as the intended focus which is media/stories such as (read the blog for more):

"Getting caught up in reporting on the latest study without reporting on larger, better-designed studies that have been done already (one recent story failed to mention that a recent Cochrane review had examined 106 papers on the same topic!)"

Why doctors' stories matter

"...As I read the winning stories, I had a fantasy, which is probably not a good idea to apply literally, but it’s useful as what philosophers would call a thought experiment. My fantasy was that in a doctor’s waiting room, instead of old magazines and public health brochures, patients might pick up stories that the doctor had written—stories not unlike these winning stories. And maybe patients would then bring in their stories and leave copies of those on the rack next to the doctor’s stories. That would open the silent world on both sides."