Chemotherapy for gynecological neoplasms : current therapy and novel approaches /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Marcel Dekker, Inc.,
[2004]
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| Series: | Basic and clinical oncology ;
28. |
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Table of Contents:
- I. Basic principles of chemotherapy
- Antineoplastic agents : classification and mechanisms of action
- Mechanisms of chemosensitivity and resistance
- In vitro testing for drug sensitivity/resistance
- Basic principles of dose itensity and high-dose chemotherapy
- Immunotherapy in gynecologic malignancies
- Gene therapy of ovarian cancer
- Basic concepts of chemotherapy sequence and combinations
- Pharmacoeconomic applications in gynecologic oncology
- II. Clinical aspects of chemotherapy
- Guidelines to writing a clinical protocol
- Evaluation of gynecologic tumor response : when and how ?
- Practical guide on how to deliver chemotherapy
- Evaluation of the patient for chemotherapy
- Chemotherapy in pregnancy
- Supportive treatment in gynecologic malignancies
- Hormone replacement therapy in gynecologic cancer patients and survivors
- Infections in patients with gynecological malignancies : prevention and management
- Pharmacologic pain management in gynecologic oncology
- Blood transfusion during chemotherapy : risks and benefits
- Role of tumor markers in gynecologic oncology
- Role of chemoprotectors during chemotherapy
- Chemoprevention in gynecological oncology
- Role of psychological support during chemotherapy
- Quality of life during chemotherapy : recent results and methodological challenges of conducting quality-of-life studies with gynecological cancer patients
- III. Ovarian cancer
- Management of early epithelial ovarian cancer
- Chemotherapy for advanced primary epithelial ovarian cancer : neoadjuvant and adjuvant
- Persistent and recurrent ovarian cancer
- Intraperitoneal chemotherapy : basic concepts and clinical trials
- Chemotherapy for germ cell tumors
- Chemotherapy for sex cord-stromal tumors
- Ovarian cancer : rationale and strategies beyond first-line treatment
- IV. Fallopian tubes
- Fallopian tube cancer
- Chemotherapy of fallopian tube cancer
- V. Corpus
- Endometrial cancer
- Medical therapy for endometrial hyperplasia and early endometrial cancer in patients desiring future childbearing
- Uterine carcinomas : chemotherapy for primary and recurrent tumors
- Chemotherapy in uterine mesenchymal tumors
- VI. Cervix
- Cervical cancer
- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in cervical cancer
- Chemoradiation therapy in cervical cancer
- Chemotherapy for recurrent and advanced cervical cancer
- VII. Vulva and vagina
- Vulvar cancer
- Chemotherapy in vulvar cancer
- Vaginal cancer
- Vaginal cancer chemotherapy
- VIII. Gestational trophoblastic disease
- Management of hydatidiform mole
- Trophoblastic disease
- IX. Rare tumors
- Rare tumor : melanoma - lymphoma - sarcoma