Description
Handbook for Principles and Practice of Gynecologic Oncology provides a practical, comprehensive yet concise guide for fellows, residents, and specialist trainees in the diagnosis and management of gynecologic cancers. The book is easy to read and designed for quick reference, with streamlined data to support treatment recommendations. The chapters have been condensed from the key chapters in Barakat, Markman and Randall's Principles and Practice of Gynecologic Oncology, Fifth Edition and are consistently organized to move from incidence to etiology to diagnosis and treatment. Helpful algorithms and reference tables are included where appropriate. Key points appear in shaded boxes within each chapter.
Features
--Within each chapter, key points are provided in shaded boxes at the end of each section
--Each chapter is consistently organized, moving from incidence to etiology to diagnosis and finally to treatment
--Helpful algorithms are included
About the Author(s)
- Douglas A Levine MD
- Assistant Attending Surgeon, Gynecology Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
- Jennifer F De Los Santos MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
- Gini F Fleming MD
- Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
- Richard R Barakat MD
- Chief, Gynecology Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
- Maurie Markman MD
- Vice President for Clinical Research, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
- Marcus E Randall MD
- Chair and William A. Mitchell Professor of Radiation Oncology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Indiana University School of Medicine; Medical Director, Department of Radiation Oncology, Clarian-Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis, IN&
Specs
- Product Format: Softbound
- ISBN: 9780781778480
- Trim Size: 5 x 8
- Pages: 288
- Pub Date: Mar 24, 2010
- Weight: 1.0
Associated Specialties
Table of contents
Chapter 1: Principles of Chemotherapy in Gynecologic Cancer
Chapter 2: Biological and Physical Aspects of Radiation Oncology
Chapter 3: Clinical Genetics of Gynecologic Cancer
Chapter 4: Preinvasive Lesions of the Genital Tract
Chapter 5: The Vulva
Chapter 6: The Vagina
Chapter 7: The Uterine Cervix
Chapter 8: The Corpus: Epithelial Tumors
Chapter 9: The Corpus: Mesenchymal Tumors
Chapter 10: Ovarian Cancer (including the Fallopian Tube)
Chapter 11: Non-Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
Chapter 12: Molar Pregnancy and Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasms
