Dr. Catherine Bethan Powell MD
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Gynecologic Oncology
1600 Divisadero St San Francisco CA, 94143Rating
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Dr. Catherine Powell is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Powell specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Powell can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Powell can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Education and Training
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 1982
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG- Gynecologic Oncology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Aqueous extract of herba Scutellaria barbatae, a chinese herb used for ovarian cancer, induces apoptosis of ovarian cancer cell lines.
- Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA mutation carriers: role of serial sectioning in the detection of occult malignancy.
- Occult ovarian cancer at the time of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy.
- Awareness of gynecologic surveillance in women from hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer families.
- Cytoreductive surgery for gynecologic malignancies--new standards of care.
- Society of gynecologic oncologists position paper: breast cancer care.
- A randomized study of the effectiveness of a brief psychosocial intervention for women attending a gynecologic cancer clinic.
- Surveillance of survivors: follow-up after risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy in BRCA 1/2 mutation carriers.
- Does the diagnosis of breast or ovarian cancer trigger referral to genetic counseling?
- Risk management options elected by women after testing positive for a BRCA mutation.
- Risk reducing salpingo-oophorectomy for BRCA mutation carriers: twenty years
- Comparison of risk management strategies between women testing positive for a BRCA variant of unknown significance and women with known BRCA deleterious mutations.
- Society of Gynecologic Oncology statement on risk assessment for inherited gynecologic cancer predispositions.
- Clinical management of patients at inherited risk for gynecologic cancer.
- A comprehensive approach to the identification and management of the BRCA patient.
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