Meet OBGYN Blair McNamara, MD

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• 00:00Most of my patients get
• 00:01referred to me by a
• 00:02community OB GYN or some
• 00:04of our gynecologists here.
• 00:06Patients who come in with
• 00:07concerning symptoms like postmenopausal
• 00:09bleeding or pelvic pain and
• 00:11along their workup that their
• 00:12OBGYN does get found to
• 00:14have a suspicious mass or
• 00:16even a cancer diagnosed from
• 00:18their OBGYN's office. The cancers
• 00:20that I treat are challenging
• 00:22because oftentimes
• 00:23their symptoms are silent, and
• 00:25so we don't identify the
• 00:26cancer like ovarian cancer until
• 00:28it's in its advanced stages.
• 00:29And we're kind of there's
• 00:30a lot we can do
• 00:31nowadays, but we're kind of
• 00:32starting from behind, if you
• 00:34will, when the cancer is
• 00:35already spread. The treatments for
• 00:36our patients are definitely a
• 00:38hundred percent customized for each
• 00:39person. I offer surgical and
• 00:41medical treatments for cancer and
• 00:42precancer.
• 00:43So some of the times
• 00:44that means like taking the
• 00:46patient to the operating room
• 00:47to remove their uterus if
• 00:49they have a uterine cancer
• 00:50or precancer which often cures
• 00:51them of their disease or
• 00:52doing a combination of a
• 00:54targeted chemotherapy,
• 00:55a systemic chemotherapy with a
• 00:55surgical intervention,
• 00:58somewhere along the line of
• 00:59their treatment. So once a
• 01:01patient has a GYN cancer
• 01:02diagnosis and they come to
• 01:03see me in clinic, I
• 01:05kind of follow them for
• 01:06the rest of their life.
• 01:07And we're watching them really
• 01:08closely for recurrence, but also
• 01:09to make sure that their
• 01:10survivorship needs, their life after
• 01:12cancer, or life with cancer
• 01:14is as full as it
• 01:14can be.