Rare gynecological cancers kill all too commonly Gynecological cancer is a frightening prospect for women. It is terrifying also for physicians who need, but often can’t find, guidance on how to investigate and appropriately treat the tumors. Rare cancers provide greater challenges as information can be harder to find and more difficult to verify. Rare Gynecologic Cancers: Diagnosis and Management brings together all you need to know on these life-threatening diseases. Straightforward summaries of pathophysiologic processes lead to the investigations that will improve your diagnostic accuracy. This provides the basis for you to identify effective treatment strategies for your patients. Written by a world-leading team of Editors and Authors and covering cancers of the • Ovaries • Uterus • Vulva • Vagina • Cervix Rare Gynecologic Cancers: Diagnosis and Management will guide you to the best life-saving treatment for your patients.

This book is intended as a reference manual that will provide the busy clinician with up-to-date information on the diagnosis and treatment of uncommon and rare gynecological cancers. While standard textbooks briefly cover these tumors, this is intended as a more comprehensive yet easy-to-use guide. After opening chapters on epidemiology, pathology, and diagnostic imaging, the full range of infrequently encountered gynecological cancers (ovarian, uterine, cervical, vaginal, and vulval) is presented and discussed with the aid of high-quality illustrations. In each case, detailed attention is paid to both differential diagnosis and current treatment options. The book has been written by an international panel of experts and is the first to gather all the uncommon and rare gynecological cancers together within one volume.

Offering a one-stop guide to recognition and therapeutic decision making, Diagnosis and Treatment of Rare Gynecologic Cancers fills a gap in the medical literature on uncommon ovarian, uterine, cervical, and vulvovaginal cancers and trophoblastic diseases. This authoritative text, edited by Drs. Michael Frumovitz, Mario Leitao, and Preetha Ramalingam, has been authored by internationally recognized experts from top institutions such as MD Anderson Cancer Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Each chapter covers different cancer subtypes and has been reviewed by an oncologist and a pathologist. - Provides up-to-date clinical guidance on assessment and therapeutic options for patients with rare gynecologic malignancies. - Presents information in a templated, easy-to-read format. Each chapter includes an introductory clinical case followed by epidemiology of disease, pathologic assessment, basic science/molecular/translational research, work-up of newly diagnosed disease, staging, treatment of newly diagnosed disease, treatment of recurrent disease, potential therapeutic targets, and a case resolution. - Includes diagnostic and treatment algorithms for each form of cancer. - Contains numerous anatomical figures, radiographs, photographs, and tables for quick visual reference.

This is a novel text that highlights the controversial areas in the management of gynecological cancers. None of the topics in this book have definitive answers; they represent the everyday decision-making facing gynecologists, oncologists, radiologists, pathologists and other health professionals treating women with these conditions. This book is not to be used as a traditional textbook; it is a text that specialists and trainees will use to help them weigh up the arguments that exist in a variety of areas in the treatment of gynecological cancers. Each chapter will have two or more authors, selected either for their opposing views or for their ability to provide an opposite view or opinion to the other. The content will be evidence-based, illustrating contrasting evidence and scientific opinion in the literature. Each chapter will close on a summary indicating the direction of research needed to address the issues being discussed.

Reference covering important aspects of rare malignancies. Includes presentation, pathology, natural history, and management of unusual cancers. New chapters cover tumors of the cervix, esthesioneuroblastoma, unusual malignancies of plasma cells, and dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans.

Written by a clinician who specializes in medical psychology and who herself has had breast cancer, twice, this is an unusually aware and supportive book that recognizes and addresses cancer's assault on one's senses of self, femininity, and womanhood. It speaks with equal resonance to women with (or worried about) cancer and to those who love them, as well as to the professionals in mental, physical, and spiritual health who work with them. Kristine Falco leavens the hard parts with her unshakable assurance that the experience of cancer can lead to a 'choiceful, redecided life based on new and amended definitions of womanhood and humanness.' She shares her understanding of the physiology of gynecologic and breast cancers, and knowledgeably confronts the differential challenges of surviving both the diagnosis and the treatments.

Completely revised and updated, this comprehensive reference provides the latest clinically relevant information on all aspects of women's health care. New contributors offer up-to-the-minute reports on late pregnancy complications, multiple pregnancy, third-trimester hemorrhage, and infertility.

Reviews the current literature on tumors at rare sites and uncommon tumors of specific type. Specialists from the UK, USA, Europe, Japan and Australia discuss recent research on a wide range of different cancers and describe their own unique clinical experiences. Each chapter deals with a different type of cancer such as gynecological tumors, thoracic tumors, tumors of the nervous system and head tumors, and covers the biology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment of each. Specifically designed to help those responsible for patient management, particularly the practicing clinician, in order to provide the optimal management for patients with uncommon cancers.

The leading single-source book in women's health care, reproductive medicine, and pelvic surgery A Doody's Core Title! Thorough review of all of obstetrics & gynecology Covers more than 1,000 diseases and disorders The latest screening and management guidelines More than 450 clear clinical photos and illustrations in two colors Formatted to facilitate quick retrieval of information Concise, current coverage of treatments for common gynecologic infections Extensively revised throughout Covers underlying pathophysiology when relevant to diagnosis and treatment Helpful references to classic and important new sources

"Essential Gynecologic Oncology will be the most comprehensive single resource on the topic. Currently, all texts in the field present either a medical discussion or surgical procedures. Available surgical atlases are either terribly outdated or shockingly expensive. EGO will be the first to combine these two kinds of resources in a single affordable volume. Each topic is written by experts and is presented in an easily accessible consistent presentation that highlights clinical practice guidelines along with the diagnosis and treatment of specific malignancies. This authoritative coverage is reinforced by the state of the art surgical atlas which offers a richly illustrated, overview of essential procedures designed to build your knowledge and confidence"--