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Gynecologic oncology. 2nd ed.

Gynecologic Oncology. 2nd Ed. Coppleson M, ed. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 2 vol., 1525 p., 1992.. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE ICDB/94696705
Anonymous; No affiliation given

Abstract: Rapid advances in both scientific and clinical aspects of the specialty in the 10 yr since the 1st edition of Gynecologic Oncology mandated the present 2nd edition which, because of this growth, contains an additional 12 chapters. The bulk of the book deals in detail with the gynecologic malignancies, presenting clinical features, staging, diagnosis, management, and prognosis. This comprehensive, encyclopedic account of the current state of the art includes the following: (1) fundamental principles (epidemiology, viruses in human tumors, carcinogenesis, immune system and gynecologic cancer, oncological endocrinology, selection of cytotoxic drugs, radiotherapy, statistics, clinical trials); (2) diagnostic aids (cytopathology, colposcopy, hysteroscopy, lymphography, arteriography, venography, MRI, CT, immunoscintigraphy, ultrasound, laparoscopy, needle biopsy, surgical staging, tumor markers); (3) malignancies (tumors of vulva and vagina, tumors of vagina and cervix and related abnormalities in young females exposed to DES, carcinoma of cervix, carcinoma of endometrium and its precursors, uterine sarcomas, tumors of fallopian tube and broad ligament, tumors of ovary, presacral tumors, trophoblastic tumors, miscellaneous malignant tumors of the female genital tract); (4) malignant tumors in pregnancy; (5) surgical techniques (CO2 laser, cryosurgery, electrocoagulation and conization of cervix, abdominal incisions and sutures, conservative and radical procedures); (6) management of complications of radical therapy (surgery and radiotherapy); (7) surgical reconstruction of the gynecologic oncology patient; and (8) after care (gynecologic pain, sexual morbidity following gynecologic cancer, psychological processes of recovery, palliative care for the patient with far advanced gynecologic cancer, attitudes to dying).
Keywords: Antineoplastic Agents/THERAPEUTIC USE Cervix Neoplasms/CHEMICALLY INDUCED/PATHOLOGY Diethylstilbestrol Female *Genital Neoplasms, Female/DIAGNOSIS/MORTALITY/PATHOLOGY/THERAPY Human Prognosis Radiotherapy Surgery, Operative Vaginal Neoplasms/CHEMICALLY INDUCED/PATHOLOGY MONOGRAPH

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