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Features:

• Outline provided at the beginning of each chapter.
• Key Points are highlighted within the body of the text.
• Summary tables and boxes spotlight key teaching points.
• Algorithms show critical pathways for diagnosis and treatment.
• Bibliography listed by topic.

What's New:

• New chapter on Principles of Hospice Care/Pain Control, written by a noted guest contributor.
• Expanded content on wound care, radiation cysts, and other complications; the benefits of and guidelines for laparoscopic approaches; and hormone replacement therapy.
• Expanded section on dystrophies of the vulva.
• More staging diagrams, e.g. vulva.
• New section on tamoxifan.
• Expanded appendix on radiation therapy.
• New high-quality gross photographs throughout.
• New 16-page "Atlas of Pathology"
• Complete redesign features new line drawings for a clear, consistent style.
• Reduced content on failed trials in chemotherapy.

Table of Contents:

Color Atlas
1 Preinvasive Disease of the Cervix 1
2 Preinvasive Disease of the Vagina and Vulva and Related Disorders 35
3 Invasive Cervical Cancer 53
4 Endometrial Hyperplasia/Estrogen Therapy 113
5 Adenocarcinoma of the Uterus 137
6 Sarcoma of the Uterus 173
7 Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia 185
8 Invasive Cancer of the Vulva 211
9 Invasive Cancer of the Vagina and Urethra 241
10 The Adnexal Mass and Early Ovarian Cancer 259
11 Epithelial Ovarian Cancer 289
12 Germ Cell, Stromal, and Other Ovarian Tumors 351
13 Fallopian Tube Cancer 377
14 Breast Diseases 385
15 Colorectal and Bladder Cancer 423
16 Cancer in Pregnancy 439
17 Complications of Disease and Therapy 473
18 Basic Principles of Chemotherapy 501
19 Tumor Immunology, Host Defense Mechanisms, and Biologic Therapy 521
20 Genes and Cancer 563
21 Palliative Care and Quality of Life 589
App. A Staging 613
App. B Gynecologic Oncology Group Common Toxicity Criteria Grade - October 1988 621
App. C Blood Component Therapy 625
App. D Commonly Used Statistical Terms and Analysis of Clinical Studies 629
App. E Suggested Recommendations for Routine Cancer Screening 633
App. F Nutritional Therapy 635
App. G Basic Principles in Gynecologic Radiotherapy 639
Index 657