BookSamir A. Farghaly, editor.
Summary: This volume is an up-to-date resource on the international state-of-the-art in the diagnosis and management of ovarian cancer. While this devastating disease has been considered mainly a disease of the Western hemisphere, the book moves beyond our conventional understanding and embraces knowledge from around the world. It focuses on recent advances in diagnosis, including genetic screening; improvements and expanded choices in management, such as gene therapy and the optimization of chemotherapeutic agents; and the latest laparoscopic and robotic surgical techniques. Further chapters address histopathologic features of this disease, and related psychosocial and quality of-life-issues. The book is aimed at the wide range of practitioners who care for patients with ovarian cancer and researchers who study the disease: general surgeons, surgical oncologists, gynecological oncologists, medical oncologists, pediatric oncologists, gynecological pathologists, gynecologists, gynecological cancer epidemiologists, gynecological onco-psychologist, genetic counselors, geneticists, and cancer research scientists.
Contents:
1. Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer: An Update
2. Genetic Risks of Ovarian Cancer
3. Management of Hereditary Ovarian?Breast Cancer
4. Ovarian Cancer Screening? and Early Detection
5. Surface Epithelial Tumors of the Ovary
6. Pathology of Non Epithelial Malignancies of the Ovary
7. Strategies for the Management of Ovarian Cancer
8. Ovarian Cancer in the Pediatric Population
9. Management of Patients with Early-Stage Ovarian Cancer
10. Treatment of Advanced-Stage Ovarian Cancer
11. Diagnosis and Management of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer with Peritoneal Metastases
12. Targeted Molecular Therapy for Patients with Ovarian Cancer
13. Psychological Aspects of Hereditary and Non-Hereditary Ovarian Cancer
14. Quality of Life in Patients with Ovarian Cancer.