Meet Endometrial Cancer Survivor Alice Edwards | Memorial Sloan Kettering

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Telling her two daughters that she had been diagnosed with endometrial cancer (cancer of the lining of the uterus) was hard for Brooklyn, NY minister Alice Edwards. But her prayers for a compassionate doctor were answered when the family called the Physician Referral Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and found Carol Brown, a gynecologic oncologist and surgeon. Edwards underwent a course of treatment that included surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation quite beautifully, Brown says admiringly.

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Back in June, I realized that something was happening with my body that wasn’t normal. I went to a doctor and she said ‘you had Endometrial cancer.’ I said ‘What is that?’ And she said cancer of the lining of the uterus. That punch hits you in your stomach that you have cancer.

Sister Edwards has been such a part of this church. I shutter to think of what this church would be like without her presence and her contributions.

I told my two daughters together. You know being a mother you hate to tell your child something that you know is going to hurt them. Went upstairs to my room and just laid on the floor for a while to get myself together. You start thinking about, oh my god, what happens if she passes away. And I just kind of felt like what the best place she could be at to be treated. I wanted a compassionate doctor. Terry was praying for the same thing. We wanted a doctor that will sit and listen to her cause she has a lot to say. And my sister Peggy called a physician referral service and that’s how she was able to get me into Sloane-Kettering.

The day of my consultation about ten of us went. And they took me in there to get my pressure taken and stuff. And all of a sudden I heard all this laughing and clapping out there, they’re making too much noise, this is a hospital. And then Doctor Brown walked in and said “Hi, I’m Doctor Brown.”