Cervix Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among women worldwide and is entirely attributable to infection with the Human Papillomavirus (HPV). Global estimates indicate that 610,000 newly incident…
Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in women worldwide, after breast and colorectal cancer. Annual global estimates for the year 2008 were 530,000 new cases and 275,000 deaths…
Most patients with gynecologic cancer are middle-aged to elderly and have a high incidence of coexisting medical problems at the time of presentation. The medical status of all patients requiring…
Vulvar cancer represents about 5% of malignancies of the female genital tract and 0.6% of female cancers. There were estimated to be 4,850 new cases of vulvar cancer diagnosed in…
In order to surgically manage gynecologic malignancies, it is frequently necessary to perform surgical procedures beyond the genital tract. These include selected operations on the intestinal and urologic tracts, and…
Epithelial ovarian cancer has the highest fatality-to-case ratio of all the gynecologic malignancies, because more than two-thirds of patients have advanced disease at diagnosis (1,2). It presents a major surgical…
Endometrial carcinoma is the most common malignancy of the female genital tract in developed countries, and the fourth most common cancer in women after breast, lung, and colorectum. Developing countries…
Essential tools for the practicing gynecologist are an understanding of benign and malignant breast diseases, the ability to detect and diagnose breast cancer, and an appreciation of the various treatment…
Gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) includes a spectrum of interrelated tumors, including complete and partial hydatidiform mole, invasive mole, choriocarcinoma, placental site trophoblastic tumor (PSTT) and epithelioid trophoblastic tumor (ETT) that…
The focus of health care delivery is shifting toward modalities that provide the best value for patients, which requires optimization of the physical, emotional, and economic aspects of care. Se…
