Features recommendations for cervical cancer screening and disease management, covering topics such as: cancer prevention, screening, and counseling; gynecologic and nongynecologic cancers and their diagnoses and treatment; palliative and end-of-life care; role of genetics in cancer; and tables for FIGO and TNM staging of cancers.

Precis: an update in obstetrics and gynecology. Oncology

Washington, DC: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

United States, United States of America

2 edition, June 2003

2, 2003-06-01

viii, 144 pages : 28 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Counseling and early detection -- Counseling -- Early detection and screening -- Genetics and gynecologic cancer -- Cell cycle -- Prognostic use of molecular information -- Treatment strategies based on molecular alterations -- Cancer risk assessment based on molecular alterations -- Screening and follow-up of high-risk patients -- Preventive strategies based on molecular alterations -- Medical-legal implications of genetic testing -- Cancer of the breast -- Risk factors -- Documentation -- Mammography -- Breast ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging -- Digital mammography -- Diagnostic evaluation -- Pathologic evaluation -- Biologic markers and prognostic factors -- Staging -- Treatment -- Special issues -- Conclusions -- Cancer of the vulva -- Screening -- Vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia -- Invasive squamous cell carcinoma -- Paget's disease of the vulva -- Verrucous carcinoma -- Sarcoma -- Melanoma -- Bartholin's gland carcinoma -- Basal cell carcinoma -- Vaginal neoplasia -- Vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia -- Squamous cell carcinoma -- Recurrent squamous cell carcinoma -- Verrucous carcinoma -- Malignant melanoma -- Endodermal sinus tumor -- Malignant lymphoma -- Clear cell adenocarcinoma -- Cervical neoplasia -- Risk factors -- Etiology -- Screening -- Managing cervical cytologic abnormalities -- Treatment -- Recurrent cervical cancer -- Cancer of the uterine corpus -- Endometrial cancer -- Uterine sarcoma -- Cancer of the ovary, peritoneum, and fallopian tube -- Epidemiology and diagnosis -- Screening -- Histology -- Diagnosis -- Staging -- Treatment of epithelial cancer -- Ovarian germ cell tumors -- Stromal tumors -- Cancer of the fallopian tube -- Gestational trophoblastic disease -- Hydatidiform mole -- Gestational trophoblastic tumors -- Nongynecologic pelvic cancers -- Colorectal cancer -- Bladder cancer -- Urethral carcinoma -- Presacral tumors -- Lymphoma -- Cancer in pregnancy -- Impact of treatment on fetal development -- Fetal and placental metastases -- Therapeutic options -- Disease sites -- Fertility and ovarian function following cancer therapy -- Palliative management of breast cancer and gynecologic malignancies -- Alleviation of symptoms -- Surgery and radiation therapy for palliation -- Psychologic issues -- Sexual issues -- End-of-life care -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- Complementary therapies -- Alternative therapies

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