Bar Levy, Founder and CEO of HaBait Shel Bar – Israel’s Women’s Cancer Association, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“New Publication: When Awareness Is Missing – Patients Pay the Price
I’m proud to share that our latest article has just been published in BMC Public Health:
‘Endometrial cancer awareness as a public health blind spot: a cross-sectional survey study’
This study explores something we often overlook in healthcare systems: what can we do to ensure early detection besides developing screening tests?
Endometrial cancer is one of the most common gynecological cancers, and the prevelance rate is rising among westen countries, yet there is no screening test.
What can we do to promote early detection? Educate the patients about risk factors and symptoms awareness. It’s that easy.
And yet, as our findings show, it remains a public health blind spot – with significant gaps in awareness, knowledge, and early recognition.
For me, it’s not just a research question it is deeply personal.
My journey into patient advocacy began after losing my mother to endometrial cancer – a disease I had barely heard about before her diagnosis. I had no idea that abnormal vaginal bleeding could be a warning sign. My mother paid the price of the lack of awareness, my family paid the price.
Years later, taking my personal pain and tranasform it into an academic paper that reflects our ‘Evidence Based Advocacy’ DNA at HaBait Shel Bar – Israel’s Women’s Cancer Association (RA) moves me and reminds me the powe of patient advocacy, and the power of our Research Institute led by Zohar Magen.
- Awareness is not a ‘nice to have’ – it is a determinant of outcomes
- Late diagnosis is often a system failure, not a patient failure
- Public health strategies must go beyond treatment and invest in knowledge
Now the mission is how do we translate these insights into policy, education, and real-world change?
I would like to thank my partners at HaBait Shel Bar which are my co-authors: Nitsan Schwarz, Yael Maizels, Orr Erlich, Zohar Magen and Zvi Vaknin.”
Title: Endometrial cancer awareness as a public health blind spot: a cross-sectional survey study
Authors: Bar Levy, Nitsan Schwarz, Yael Maizels, Orr Erlich, Zohar Magen, Zvi Vaknin
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