Section I: Approach to Tumors of the Ovary
Introduction written by Don Dizon
Chapter 1: Optimally Resected Stage IIIC Ovarian Cancer
Case: A 48 year old female with stage IIIC ovarian cancer: optimal treatment following optimal surgical debulking
Institution: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Don S. Dizon, MD and Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum, MD
Chapter 2: Suboptimal Debulked Ovarian Cancer
Case: A 70 year-old female presenting with a large adnexal mass and upper abdominal disease.
Institution: University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Grainger S. Lanneau, MD, Robin Acker, MD, Rosemary Zuna, MD, and D. Scott McMeekin, MD
Chapter 3: Platinum-Sensitive Recurrent Ovarian Cancer: Therapeutic Options
Case: A 44 year-old woman with a history of advanced ovarian cancer that recurs after a three year interval
Institution: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Nicholas P. Taylor, MD and Matthew Powell, MD
Chapter 4: Platinum-Resistant Recurrent Ovarian Cancer
Case: A 58 year-old woman with Stage IIIC ovarian cancer with a slow normalizing CA-125 to adjuvant carboplatin and paclitaxel
Institution: UMDNJ – New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
Bernadette Cracchiolo, MD, Nasrin Ghesani, MD, Margarette Bryan, MD, Mario M. Leitao, Jr., MD
Chapter 5: Young Woman with Ovarian Cancer
Case: A 40 year-old woman with an adnexal mass first detected in pregnancy
Institution: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Michael G. Kelly, MD, Maritza Martel, MD, Pasquale Patrizio, MD, MBE, HCLD, and Masoud Azodi, MD
Chapter 6: Ovarian Germ Cell Tumors
Case: A 19 year-old woman presenting with a large abdominopelvic mass.
Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago IL
Halla Nimeiri, MD, Anthony Montag, MD, Seiko Diane Yamada, MD, and Gini F Fleming, MD
Chapter 7: LMP Tumors of the Ovary
Case: A 37 year old woman with a history of a serous low malignant potential tumor of the ovary with a complex right ovarian cyst
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Elizabeth G. Munro, MD and Linda R. Duska, MD
Chapter 8: Sex-cord/Stromal Ovarian Cancer
Case: The management of a case of granulosa cell tumor of the ovary
Institution: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Kate Maturen, MD, Christina Kong, MD, and Amreen Husain, MD
Chapter 9: Ovarian Metastasis from a Solid Tumor
Case: An ovarian mass in a patient with stomach cancer: approach and considerations
Institution: University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Shahryar A. Ashouri, MD, Luis Santos-Reyes, MD, Jabi Elijah Shriki, MD, Krishna Surti, MD, Brian Kwok, MD, and Agustin A Garcia, MD
Chapter 10: Hereditary Ovarian Cancer
Case: A 34 year-old woman with a family history of Ovarian Cancer
Institution: Women & Infants’ Hospital/The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Providence, RI
Jessica Kent, MS and Christina Bandera, MD
Section II: Approach to Tumors of the Uterine Corpus
Chapter 11: Approach to a Patient with an Early Uterine Cancer
Case: A 69 year-old female with uterine papillary serous carcinoma
Institution: New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Jill S. Whyte, MD, Cathleen Heffernan, MD, Khush Mittal, MD, and Stephanie V. Blank, MD
Chapter 12: Management of Advanced Endometrial Cancer
Case: A 59 year-old female with IIIC endometrial carcinoma: Controversies and approaches to management.
Institution: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Jacob M. Estes, MD, Michael Conner, MD, and Sharmila Makhija, MD
Chapter 13: Metastatic Endometrial Cancer
Case: A 72 year-old woman with a history of endometrial cancer presenting with recurrent vaginal bleeding.
Institution: Women & Infants’ Hospital/Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI
Don S. Dizon, MD, FACP, Curtis Johnston, MD, Paul DiSilvestro, MD
Chapter 14: Approach to Women with Uterine Sarcomas
Case: A 48 year old woman with pre-menopausal woman who presents with persistent heavy vaginal bleeding and a rapidly enlarging pelvic mass
Institution: University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Brian M. Slomovitz, MD, Elizabeth Euscher, MD, Anuja Jhingran, MD, Robert Troiano, MD, Robert Coleman, MD
Chapter 15: Gestational Trophoblast Disease
Case: Two cases of gestational trophoblastic neoplasia in young women
Institution: Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA
Christine L. Shapter, RN, BSN and Anne P. Shapter, MD, FACOG
Section III: Approach to Cervical Cancer
Introduction written by Don Dizon
Chapter 16: Early Cervical Cancer
Case: A 41 year-old with an abnormal pap smear.
Institution: Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
Chapter 17: Metastatic Cervical Cancer: Options for Further Treatment
Case: A 55 year-old woman with a history of cervical cancer presenting with metastatic disease
Institution: University of California at Irvine, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Irvine, CA
Leslie Randall-Whitis, MD, Omid Bendavid, MD, Paul Lizotte, DO, Bradley J. Monk, MD
Chapter 18: Cervical Cancer: Surgical Options for Recurrent Disease
Case: A 53 year old woman with a history of cervical cancer presenting with a central pelvic recurrence
Institution: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Susannah M. Mourton , MD, Aileen Caceres, MD, Andrea L. Pusic, MD, and Dennis S. Chi, MD
Chapter 19: Cervical Cancer – Rare Histologies and Considerations for Management
Case: A 21 year-old woman presenting with heavy vaginal bleeding and a prolapsing cervical mass
Institution: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Joseph W. Carlson, MD, PhD and Susana M. Campos, MD, MPH
Section IV: Approach to Vulvar and Vaginal Cancers
Chapter 20: Vaginal Cancer: Managing an Uncommon Disease
Case: A 72 year-old female with vaginal bleeding and a large exophytic vaginal mass on exam
Institution: University of Vermont School of Medicine, Burlington, VT
Sharon Mount, MD, Betsy Sussman, MD, H. James Wallace, MD, Cheung Wong, MD, and Emmanuel N. Soultanakis, M.D
Chapter 21: Cancer of the Vulva
Case: Vulva Cancer: Surgical or Medical Therapy
Institution: University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Stacy Akers MD, Grace Moore, MD, William Spanos MD, Michael Rice MD, and Mary Evelyn Gordinier, MD
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