The Laughlin Family Foundation awards Dr. Amanda Nickles Fader a $100,000 grant to help support the Center for Rare Gynecologic Cancers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and their patients

Rockville, MD - The Laughlin Family Foundation partners with the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Johns Hopkins Medicine to fund projects to help advance screening and early detections for gynecologic cancers, as well as to help develop better treatment options for women diagnosed with the rarest, most aggressive endometrial (uterine) cancers.  

The $100,000 award, given to Dr. Fader, will fund a research consortium, an international conference to bring together the best experts in the world on uterine serous carcinoma to develop a white paper on the best practices in uterine serous carcinoma diagnosis and treatment, as well as allow for a better nationwide study of treatment trends and outcomes for survivors of rare gynecologic caners. This award will also help to establish a national clinical rare tumor registry, including uterine serous carcinoma, to provide key data for researchers, as well as fund a clinical trails program to help better understand how to prevent and treat uncommon endometrial cancers. 

 Dr. Fader shares her passions for this research noting that “every 5 minutes, a women in the United States will be diagnosed with a gynecological cancer, and the incidence and mortality rates of several women’s cancers, including endometrial cancers, are on the rise.” Dr. Fader and her team have a lot of work to do to improve the survival of women diagnosed with gynecologic cancers, and reduce the overall number of cancer case. 

Linda Laughlin, founder of the Laughlin Family Foundation and a rare uterine cancer survivor, is excited for this partnership. “We believe that this initiative will help doctors gain more insight into the best practices for treatment through collaboration, and will ultimately lead to more targeted research and better treatments with better outcomes for patients with these rare gynecologic caners.”

This is the first grant that the Laughlin Family Foundation has awarded since its inception in 2018.