Dr. Bakkum-Gamez is a Gynecologic Oncologist and Gynecologist at Mayo Clinic. She specializes in the surgical care of women with gynecologic cancers and women at increased risk of gynecologic cancer. Dr. Bakkum-Gamez's primary research focuses on the development of early detection tests for endometrial and ovarian cancers as well as novel therapeutics for advanced stage and recurrent endometrial cancer.
A Mayo Clinic study found that a multidisciplinary surgical approach using modified Mohs surgery lowered recurrence for patients with female EMPD compared with traditional WLE.
Female genital Paget's disease is really challenging. For patients, it can be debilitating — they can become hopeless due to this disease's recurring nature. Mayo Clinic urologists had partnered with dermatologic surgeons for some time when we began this study in gynecologic oncology. We heard about Mohs surgery's success in male anatomy, resulting in fewer recurrences in men than in women. This is a gender inequity. We wanted to study this procedure in women with Paget's to give them the best possible treatment.