Uterine Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Oliva, Esther. (Editor), Muggia, Franco. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2009.
• Series: Current Clinical Oncology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gynecology.; Oncology.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-044-1

There are an estimated 41,000 new cases of Uterine and Endometrial Cancer each year in the United States alone, resulting in roughly 7300 deaths. In Uterine Cancer: Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment, Franco Muggia, Esther Oliva and a panel of prominent medical and gynecologic oncologists survey all...

Table of Contents:

• The Essential Epidemiology of Cancer of the Endometrium
• Endometrial Cancer: Screening, Diagnosis, and Surgical Staging
• Imaging in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Endometrial Cancer
• Uterine Cancer: Pathology
• Molecular pathology and cytogenetics of endometrial carcinoma, carcinosarcoma and uterine sarcomas
• Prognostic Factors in Uterine Cancer
• Primary Hormonal Therapy of Endometrial Cancer
• Early Stage Endometrial Cancer: Surgery
• Early Stage Endometrial Cancer: Radiation
• Early-presenting uterine papillary serous carcinomas, carcinosarcomas, clear-cell and mixed histology carcinomas: combined chemotherapy and radiation
• Endocrine Therapy of Advanced and Recurrent Cancers
• Chemotherapy of Advanced and Recurrent Cancers
• Treatment for advanced and recurrent carcinoma: Combined modalities
• Combined Treatment of Uterine Sarcomas
• Future directions: new targets.