Dr. Linda R Duska MD
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Gynecologic Oncology
Uva Hospital West Hospital Drive, 4th Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Linda Duska is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Duska specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Duska can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Duska can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG- 1999
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Predictors of recurrence in surgical stage II endometrial adenocarcinoma.
- Epithelial ovarian carcinoma in the reproductive age group.
- Clinically significant venous thromboembolism after gynecologic surgery.
- Combination photoimmunotherapy and cisplatin: effects on human ovarian cancer ex vivo.
- The role of cytoreductive surgery in the management of stage IV uterine papillary serous carcinoma.
- Endometrial cancer in women 40 years old or younger.
- Detection of female lower genital tract dysplasia using orally administered 5-aminolevulinic acid induced protoporphyrin IX: a preliminary study.
- Cervical adenocarcinoma survival among Hispanic and white women: a multicenter cohort study.
- Loss of cables, a cyclin-dependent kinase regulatory protein, is associated with the development of endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancer.
- BAG-1 expression in normal and neoplastic endometrium.
- Low-molecular-weight heparin (dalteparin) in women with gynecologic malignancy.
- Advances in the surgical management of ovarian cancer.
- Treatment of uterine papillary serous carcinoma with platinum-based chemotherapy and paclitaxel.
- Negative laparoscopy is highly predictive of negative second-look laparotomy following chemotherapy for ovarian, tubal, and primary peritoneal carcinoma.
- Uterine malignant mixed mullerian tumors should not be included in studies of endometrial carcinoma.
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Fellowships
- Gynecologic Oncology, Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA USA 1988
- Gynecologic Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Linda R Duska MD's Practice location
Practice At Uva Hospital West Hospital Drive, 4th Floor
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