Linda Carson, M.D., F.A.C.O.G.

carso001@umn.edu
612-626-2613, office
Preferred method of contact:  e-mail

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 has been Chairman of the Department since 2001.  In addition, Dr. Carson is the Co-Director and Clinical Care Director for the Deborah E. Powell Center for 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.

Dr. Carson’s clinical interests are vulvar cancer, cervical cancer, endometrial cancer and ovarian cancer; premalignant and malignant conditions of the lower genital tract, gestational trophoblastic disease, and nutrition and cancer.

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(3):630-4.

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(2):659-61.

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(5):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.   Gynecol Oncol  2006;100(3):561-4.

Argenta PA, Ghebre R, Dusenbery KE, Chen MD, Judson PL, Downs LS Jr, Carson LF.  Radiation therapy with concomitant and adjuvant cisplatin and paclitaxel in high-risk cervical cancer:  Long-term follow-up.  Eur J Gynaecol Oncol  2006;27(3)231-5.

Chura JC, Van Iseghem K, Downs LS Jr, Carson LF, Judson PL.  Bevacizumab plus cyclophosphamide in heavily pretreated patients with recurrent ovarian cancer.  Gynecol Oncol  2007;107(2):326-30. 

Downs LS Jr, Judson PL, Argenta PA, Ghebre R, Geller MA, Bliss RL, Boente MP, Nahhas WA, Abu-Ghazaleh SZ, Chen MD, Carson LF.  A prospective randomized trial of thalidomide with topotecan compared with topotecan alone in women with recurrent epithelial ovarian carcinoma.  Cancer 2008;112(2):331-9.

Clinics

• Women's Health Center
  612-626-3444

• Park Nicollet Oncology Clinic
  952-993-5475