Molecular Pathology of Gynecologic Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Giordano, Antonio (Editor), Bovicelli, Alessandro (Editor), Kurman, Robert J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2007.
• Series: Current Clinical Oncology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Laboratory medicine.; Gynecology.; Obstetrics.; Oncology.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Laboratory Medicine.; Cancer Research.; Obstetrics/Perinatology.

Molecular Pathology of Gynecologic Cancer focuses on putting successful molecular strategies into practice for the treatment of gynecologic cancer. The volume begins with an explication of the editors’ hypothesis that cancer is mainly a disease of the cell cycle, based on the deregulation of the phy...

Table of Contents:

• The Cell Cycle and the Molecular Biology of Cancer
• Ovarian Cancer
• Ovarian Serous Carcinogenesis—A Proposed Model
• Molecular Markers in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
• Endometrial Cancer
• to Endometrial Cancer
• Endometrial Carcinogenesis
• Endometrial Carcinoma—Molecular Genetic Aspects
• Cervical Cancer
• Natural History of HPV Infection in Adolescents and Relationship to Cervical Cancer
• Molecular Genetics of Cervical Cancer
• Prevention and Treatment of Cervical Cancer by Vaccination
• Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
• Pathogenesis of Gestational Trophoblastic Lesions
• Hereditary Issues in Gynecological Cancer
• Hereditary Issues In Ovarian Cancer
• Hereditary Factors in Endometrial Cancer
• The Multidisciplinary Therapeutic Approach to Gynecological Cancer in the New Millenium
• The Holistic Approach to Female Cancer Patients.