About WORD
WORD’S MISSION:
WORD is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping women conquer gynecologic cancers through coordinating innovative scientific and clinical research, creating practical educational resources, resulting empowering education for women and medical personnel about proper prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
WORD’S OPPORTUNITY:
WORD has developed scientific collaboration with physicians, advocates, and healthcare communication experts that result in outcome-based educational resources. WORD’s goal is be able to create open-source, proven, and practical resources free of production cost to networks of advocates throughout the United States. These outcome-based resources will educate women about the prevention, signs, symptoms, and treatments of gynecologic cancers.
Furthermore, WORD is focused on many aspects of high-quality, innovative gynecologic cancer research. WORD researchers seek to foster the exchange of knowledge and new ideas among scientists dedicated to cancer research, and increase public understanding of cancer. WORD strives to be a source of information about advances in the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of gynecologic cancer.
Over two years ago Drs. Geisler, Linnemeier, and Manahan started Women’s Oncology Research & Development (WORD) with one dream: save women’s lives through empowering education and innovative clinical and scientific research. During a November 2005 dinner the doctors planned an organization that would provide real hope for women of all ages and improve prognosis of women diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer . After that meeting Dr. Manahan went on to send a letter asking for help in this endeavor. She wrote:
“Over the next five years, WORD’s strategy is to fund and coordinate innovative research and progressive education that will decrease cancer occurrence, increase quality of life, and bring hope to thousands of women and families struggling with cancer. This endeavor needs many partners! Research and education are integral to reaching the cure for which we all dream. Together, we can help create possibilities that will change the outlook of cancer.”
Well two years later, WORD is beginning to make huge strides at reaching many of these goals. In the following pages are highlights of WORD’s first two years.
