Title: Textbook of gynecologic oncology /
Authors: Blackledge, George.; Jordan, Joseph A.; Shingleton, Hugh M.
Date: 1991
Publisher: WB Saunders,
Physical description: vii, 504 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: R
Contents: Epidemiology and gynecologic cancer -- Principles of pathology -- Principles of cytology -- Staging of gynecological cancers -- Principles of non-surgical investigations -- Principles of surgery -- Radiation therapy for gynecologic malignancies -- Principles of chemotherapy -- Assessment of response in gynecological cancer -- Etiology and epidemiology of ovarian cancer -- Pathology of ovarian neoplasia -- The clinical presentation of ovarian carcinoma -- Ovarian carcinoma: a surgical approach -- Adjuvant treatment of ovarian cancer -- Treatment of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer -- Non-epithelial ovarian tumors -- The etiology and epidemiology of uterine adenocarcinoma -- Pathology of uterine tumors -- Clinical features, investigation and staging of endometrial carcinoma -- Treatment of endometrial cancer of the uterus -- The epidemiology and etiology of cervical cancer -- The pathology of tumors of the cervix -- Cytopathology of the uterine cervix -- The presentation of carcinoma of the cervix -- Cancer of the cervix -- surgical treatment -- Radiation teatment of carcinoma of the uterine cervix -- Chemotherapy of cervix cancer -- Radiotherapeutic and surgical approaches to advanced or recurrent cervical cancer -- The etiology and epidemiology of vulvar and vaginal neoplams -- Vulva and vagina: pathology of malignant tumors -- Presentation of carcinoma of the vulva -- Surgical management of cancer of the vulva -- Tumors of the vulva and vagina: treatment of advanced disease -- Presentation and management of cancer of the vagina -- The etiology and epidemiology of gestational trophoblastic disease -- Pathology of gestational trophoblastic disease -- Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia: benign GTN and overall surgical management --Gestational trophoblastic tumors -- The hospice approach (palliative medicine).
Subject headings (LCSH): Generative organs, Female--Cancer.