The CureCervicalCancer team has returned to Ayder Hospital in Mekelle, Ethiopia to train their healthcare professionals in thermocoagulation. Ayder Hospital was the very first CCC “See & Treat” Clinic established in 2013. Initially, Dr. Gordon traveled to Ayder planning to conduct a weeklong screening and treatment mission. After witnessing the dedication and passion of Ayder’s...
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of death of women in Ethiopia and it is no coincidence that CureCervicalCancer had the humbling opportunity to help establish 4 new ongoing clinics in the surrounding region of Addis Ababa. CCC seeks to help regions around the world where the prevalence of cervical cancer is high because we...
Hello, my name is Donna Stellini and I am a photojournalist. I am the prior owner of Stellini’s restaurant and have lived in Beverly Hills nearly all my life. The reason I came to Ethiopia with our volunteer team of doctors, nurses, and staff of CCC, as a photojournalist was to tell a story with...
As an oncologist, cervical cancer has piqued my curiosity for a multitude of reasons. For starters, no one back home seems to pay much attention to it. While pink has become synonymous with breast cancer and the most successful advocacy movement to date, not many even realize that teal is the color commemorating thousands of...
Emotional seems to be the best word to describe today’s events. Dr. Gordon and I had the opportunity to fly to the very northern part of Ethiopia, a region called Tigray, where our very 1st CCC program was established. When we first arrived, a pleasant and unexpected surprise awaited us—Sara and Tsehay—the first CCC “see...
I leaned about the CCC program through my good friend Stephen. He told me about the many clinics CCC has set up around the world and the thousands of women these clinics have helped. To try and understand CCC’s work I showered him with questions, “How many patients did you treat?” “How many of those...
The April 2015 Ethiopia program in Addis Ababa has finally begun! Team members included Patricia Gordon MD (Founding Director and Board Chair), Judy Carmel (Board Member), Lirona Katzir MD, Mamta Singhvi MD, Elsa Miramontes RN, DeeDee Dorskind (volunteer), Donna Stellini (photojournalist), Stephen Morris (lead coordinator), Yvonne Nong (coordinator), and Bradley Neutel (volunteer). For the week...
The CureCervicalCancer team (led by Dr. Patricia Gordon MD-Harvard/UCLA, Lirona Katzir MD-UCLA, and Mamta Singhvi MD-UCLA) is packed and set to return to Ethiopia in April 2015! We will establish four CCC “See and Treat” programs and train 24 local healthcare providers. Our trainees will become experts in the “See and Treat” procedure and learn...
This afternoon, CCC successfully established our second permanent, sustainable cervical cancer “See and Treat” clinic on this project (and in Ethiopia!) in Wukra, Ethiopia. The Cure Cervical Cancer: The Mary Clinic was met by an outpouring of grateful women who flocked to the clinic in order to be screened and treated for premalignant cervical lesions...
The CCC team will depart on October 28 to Africa to establish two new sustainable, ongoing “See and Treat” clinics. This will be our busiest and most varied experience to date. We will be journeying between Kenya and Ethiopia — from urban commercial sectors to rural regional clinics — and simultaneously setting up new clinics...
