Publications by authors named "Alexandra H Smick"

Purpose Of Review: To review the recent updates in the management of cervical cancer across all stages of the disease.

Recent Findings: After decades of minor advances, the landscape in cervical cancer is now rapidly changing. Recent studies have reported across the cervical cancer spectrum and on different therapeutic modalities.

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Objective: To evaluate whether there is an association between county-level obstetrician-gynecologist (ob-gyn) and primary care physician (PCP) densities and gynecologic cancer outcomes in the United States.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study of gynecologic cancers (uterine, ovarian, and cervical) in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database was performed from 2005 to 2018. County-level demographics were abstracted from the SEER database, population density from the United States Census Bureau, and physician density (ob-gyns and PCPs/100,000 females) from the Area Health Resources File.

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