Chemotherapy for gynecological neoplasms : [current therapy and novel approaches] /
Angioli, R.
New York : Marcel Dekker,
c2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Antineoplastic agents: classification and mechanisms of action -- Mechanisms of chemosensitivity and resistance -- In vitro testing for drug sensitivity/resistance -- Basic principles of dose intensity and high-dose chemotherapy -- Immunotherapy in gynecologic malignancies -- Gene therapy of ovarian cancer -- Basic concepts of chemotherapy sequence and combinations -- Pharmacoeconomic applications in gynecologic oncology -- Guidelines to writing a clinical protocol -- Evaluation of gynecologic tumor response: when and how? -- Practical guide on how to deliver chemotherapy -- Evaluation of the patient for chemotherapy-- Chemotherapy in pregnancy -- Supportive treatment in gynecologic malignancies -- Hormone replacement therapyin gynecologic cancer patients and survivors -- Infections in patients with gynecological malignancies: prevention and management --Pharmacologic pain management in gynecologic oncology -- Blood transfusion during chemotherapy: risks and benefits -- Role of tumor markers in gynecologic oncology -- Role of chemoprotectors during chemotherapy for gynecologic neoplasms -- Chemoprevention in gynecological oncology -- Role of psychological support during chemotherapy -- Quality of life during chemotherapy: recent results and methodological challenges of conducting quality-of-life studies with gynecological cancer patients --
Ovarian cancer -- Management of early epithelial ovarian cancer -- Chemotherapy for advanced primary epithelial ovarian cancer: neoadjuvant and adjuvant -- Persistent and recurrent ovarian cancer -- Intraperitoneal chemotherapy: basic concepts and clinical trials -- Chemotherapy for germ cell tumors -- Chemotherapy for sex cord-stromal tumors -- Ovarian cancer: rationale and strategies beyond first-line treatment -- Fallopian tube cancer -- Chemotherapy of fallopian tube cancer -- Endometrial cancer -- Medical therapy for endometrial hyperplasia and early endometrial cancer in patients desiring future childbearing -- Uterine carcinomas: chemotherapy for primary and recurrent tumors -- Chemotherapy in uterine mesenchymal tumors -- Cervical cancer -- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in cervical cancer -- Chemoradiation therapy for cervical cancer -- Chemotherapy for recurrent and advanced cervical cancer -- Vulvar cancer -- Chemotherapy in vulvar cancer -- Vaginal cancer -- Vaginal cancer chemotherapy -- Management of hydatidiform mole -- Trophoblastic disease -- Rare tumor: melanoma--lymphoma--sarcoma.
Generative organs, Female