Pages: 168,
Specialty: Obs & Gyn,
Publisher: Elsevier,
Publication Year: 2007,
Cover: Hardback,
Dimensions: 154.94x231.14x12.7mm

This issue of "Obstetrics and Gynecologic Clinics of North America", guest edited by Carolyn Muller, MD, reviews the fundamentals of cancer prevention and screening which will help the reader understand the often conflicting outcomes of many studies designed to evaluate risk factors and interventions. State-of-the-art prevention strategies are presented by a distinguished group of authors who have dedicated their professional careers to the study of each of the major reproductive tract malignancies. Current clinical trials are highlighted that offer the practicing obstetrician-gynecologist with future directions into tomorrow's preventive care.This issue features articles on Strengthening Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Studies, Hereditary Ovarian Cancer, Strategies for Ovarian Cancer Prevention, Ovarian Cancer Hormonal and Environmental Risk Effect, Endometrial Cancer Associated with Defective DNA Mismatch Repair, Management of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding and the Pathology of Endometrial Hyperplasia, Cervical Cancer Prevention, Prophylactic Human Papillomavirus Vaccination, and Vulvo-Vaginal Cancers.show more