FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - A 38-year-old mother of three celebrated the remission of her cancer after six rounds of chemotherapy days before being wed to her husband.
Alexandra Malamud shared her story after she went from a difficult discovery to marrying her husband in November of 2025.
She explained how she found out about her cancer diagnosis.
“It was last October. I went three days of having pain in my stomach, and by day three it was horrible. I was lying down, and it just felt like my insides were ripping,” she said.
She went to get the issue checked out, and doctors found two softball-sized cancerous tumors.
“So I went in for a full hysterectomy, and they took out the tumors as well, and that’s when Dr. [Scott] Jordan was scraping my insides and found out that it was cancerous,” she said. It’s nothing I ever expected to hear at the age that I’m currently at,” said Malamud.
However, she and her husband still wanted the wedding to go on as planned.
“I just really felt like I needed something good in that moment before I started this whole process,” she said.
Malamud then went through six rounds of chemotherapy for her ovarian cancer at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.
Now, Malamud, who took part in a clinical trial, shared the importance of health checkups, especially during Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month.
“Get yourself checked out. I went years after having our last son, and I just never went back. I never looked, and I never saw my [gynecologist]. So that’s obviously I have no idea how long something was going on because I just never checked,” she said.
Dr. Scott Jordan, a gynecologic oncologist at Broward Health Medical Center, emphasized the importance of clinical trials, especially for ovarian cancer.
“And hopefully this trial, once it has results, will give us answers for future patients of, ‘Do we really need to be doing as aggressive of therapy as it may be causing some side effects from chemo, fatigue, nausea, vomiting?'” he said.
Malamud then shared her plans for the future.
“Obviously, I just want to be here because I don’t want to leave my family at all. I spend every day with my son, so I want to be here for him. So as long as that happens, I can deal with anything else. My hair is obviously a temperamental thing, and it’s not going to last forever,” she said.
She said that she is grateful to the staff at Broward Health Medical Center and her husband for their support.
Broward Health currently has 10 gynecologic oncology clinical trials open, with more to come. These trials are open to everyone.
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