Research Program: Women's Cancer
Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health

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Dr. Carson's clinical profile
(University of Minnesota Physicians Web site)

Dr. Carson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health. She is a board certified gynecologic oncologist.

Dr. Carson graduated magna cum laude with honors in zoology from Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. She graduated from George Washington School of Medicine and completed her residency at Johns Hopkins University and Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. She completed her fellowship in gynecologic oncology at the University of Minnesota.

Research Interests

Dr. Carson's clinical interests are vulvar cancer, nutrition and cancer, clinical cancer and ovarian cancer. Dr. Carson has been Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health since 2001.

Selected Publications

Betty Crocker's Living with Cancer Cookbook. Ghosh K, Carson L, Cohen E (Eds), Hungry Minds, Inc.: New York, 2002.

Sutton G, Kauderer J, Carson LF, Lentz SS, Whitney CW, Gallion H. Adjuvant ifosfamide and cisplatin in patients with completely resected stage I or II carcinosarcomas (mixed mesodermal tumors) of the uterus: A gynecologic Oncology Group study. Gynecol Oncol. 2005;96:630-634.

Argenta PA, Kubicek GJ, Dusenbery KE, Judson PL, Downs LS, Carson LF, Boente MP. Widespread lymph node metastases in a young woman with FIGO stage IA1 squamous cervical cancer. Gynecol Oncol. 2005;97:659-661.

Mitchell SK, Carson LF, Judson P, Downs LS Jr. Efficacy and tolerability of lower-dose topotecan in recurrent ovarian cancer: A retrospective case review. Int J Gynecol Cancer 2005;15:793-798.

Jonson AL, Bliss RL, Truskinovsky A, Judson P, Argenta P, Carson L, Dusenbery K, Downs LS Jr. Clinical features and outcomes of uterine and ovarian carcinosarcoma. Gynecologic Oncol. 2006; 100:561-564.