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A look at ethics in the treatment of women's cancer

The malignancies treated in the subspecialty of gynecologic oncology often are aggressive, recurrent and incurable. Many ethical concerns relate to the fact they frequently occur in young women, and their prevention and treatment entail radical surgeries and side effects that can alter the remainder of a woman’s life.

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Video: How physicians can see patients' "unvisible" problems

Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, director of the University of Chicago Medicine’s program in integrative sexual medicine, discussed her work to help identify, treat and prevent sexual health problems in female cancer patients at the AMA’s recent Inspirations in Medicine event.

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Ethics journal discusses tensions in reproductive medicine

In reproductive medicine, advances in medical science and technology often outpace society’s opportunity for due deliberation about their ethical use. Physicians and other experts in the field explore these ethical considerations in the October issue of Virtual Mentor, the AMA’s online ethics journal.

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January Virtual Mentor explores assisted reproduction and the art of medicine

In this month's issue of Virtual Mentor, new technologies for assisting in human reproduction can raise ethical dilemmas for parents-to-be and physicians alike.

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