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Patient-led GYN Cancer Answers
What was it like when you first heard ‘you have cancer’?
No moderator. No script. Just people who’ve experienced gynecologic cancer answering direct, personal questions to break the taboo, challenge stigma, and make these conversations easier to have.”
Watch Episode 1
Stigma
The questions in this conversation touch on stigma, friendship, fertility, loss, and hope. Every answer is rooted in direct, personal experience.
Thank you to this episodes sponsor:
Why It Matters
How It Works
Questions are sourced anonymously from cancer forums and stigma surveys, then reviewed by the IGCAN Advocacy Committee — a panel of survivor-advocates and physicians — before filming. What we’re after is an honest reaction, not a rehearsed one.
What This Is
Six people who’ve experienced gynecologic cancer. The same set of direct, personal questions. Zero rehearsal. There’s no host and or moderator — just survivors, together, sharing what only they can share.
Meet the Patients
Each of these women shared their perspective — uncensored and out loud. Read their bios for a closer look at who they are beyond this project.
Tiera
Wade
Cervical Cancer
Gina
Quintana Cortez
Uterine Cancer
LaDonna
Stanley-Thompson
Uterine Cancer
Rachel
Miller-Garcia
Cervical Cancer
Linda
Laughlin
Uterine Cancer
Athena
Foster
Uterine Cancer
Get Involved
Have a question for a future episode?
Submit it anonymously - it could be asked in an upcoming episode of Uncensored, Out Loud.
Want to be in an episode?
If you’re a gynecologic cancer patient or survivor, and are comfortable speaking about your personal experience on camera, we’d love to hear from you. Elizabeth.robinson@igcs.org
