Washington, DC -- As featured on the cover of pause_® magazine, Fran Drescher tells women in an accompanying profile, "Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep." The actress, best known for her role as Miss Fine on "The Nanny," is a tireless advocate for raising awareness of women's cancers and is herself a cancer survivor.

"Women need to be able to evaluate whether their doctors are doing all they're supposed to do," says Drescher. "We know how to evaluate who cuts our hair, or the person who does the engine work under the hood of our car, but what about the people who literally have our life in their hands?"

In the latest issue of pause_®, Drescher openly talks about her personal experience with uterine cancer and what led her to create the nonprofit advocacy organization Cancer Schmancer Movement. According to Drescher, "Everything that we're doing is to ensure that a woman with cancer is diagnosed in stage one because that gives her the best shot of survival."

Drescher founded Cancer Schmancer in 2007 as her way of sounding the alarm. "We want to help change the way government thinks, the way the medical community thinks, and the way the woman herself thinks," explains Drescher. Her advocacy has brought the importance of early diagnosis of women's cancers before state and federal officials. She is credited with helping to pass Johanna's Law: The Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act, which was signed into law last year. To learn more about Ms. Drescher's advocacy efforts, please click here to view the article, "Fran Drescher's Most Important Role."

"We are very excited to highlight Ms. Drescher's work in pause_®. Her compelling story and unique perspective make it a perfect fit for the magazine," says Isaac Schiff, MD, chair of the pause_® Medical Advisory Board and chief of the Vincent Obstetrics and Gynecology Service at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Joe Vincent Meigs Professor of Gynecology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. "I cannot think of anyone better to motivate women to take charge of their health than Fran Drescher," adds Dr. Schiff.

pause_® is published biannually by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and distributed to more than 750,000 women in all stages of the menopausal transition directly by their ob-gyns.

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