Dr. Laura Jean Havrilesky MD
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Gynecologic Oncology
1000 Trent Drive Durham NC, 27710About
Dr. Laura Havrilesky is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Durham, NC. Dr. Havrilesky specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Havrilesky can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Havrilesky can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
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Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG- Gynecologic Oncology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Relationship between expression of coactivators and corepressors of hormone
- Loss of expression of the p16 tumor suppressor gene is more frequent in advanced ovarian cancers lacking p53 mutations.
- High dose rate intraoperative radiotherapy for recurrent cervical cancer and nodal disease.
- Rectus abdominis myocutaneous and myoperitoneal flaps for neovaginal reconstruction after radical pelvic surgery: comparison of flap-related morbidity.
- Maspin expression in epithelial ovarian cancer and associations with poor prognosis: a Gynecologic Oncology Group study.
- Comparison of gracilis and rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap neovaginal reconstruction performed during radical pelvic surgery: flap-specific morbidity.
- Co-expression of angiogenic markers and associations with prognosis in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: a Gynecologic Oncology Group study.
- Primary surgery versus chemoradiation in the treatment of IB2 cervical carcinoma: a cost effectiveness analysis.
- Medical and surgical treatment of placenta percreta to optimize bladder preservation.
- Reducing ovarian cancer mortality through screening: Is it possible, and can we afford it?
- Cost comparison among robotic, laparoscopic, and open hysterectomy for endometrial cancer.
- A review of cost-effectiveness studies in ovarian cancer.
- The influence of radiation modality and lymph node dissection on survival in early-stage endometrial cancer.
- Utility scores and treatment preferences for clinical early-stage cervical cancer.
- Retrospective review of an intraoperative algorithm to predict lymph node metastasis in low-grade endometrial adenocarcinoma.
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