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Gynecologic Tumor Board: Clinical Cases in Diagnosis and Management of Cancer of the Female Reproductive System

Author(s): Don S. Dizon, MD, FACP, Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Medicine, Brown Medical School/Women & Infants' Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island
Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763743123
  • ISBN-10:0763743127
  • Hardcover    212 pages      © 2009
Price: International Sales $181.95 US List
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Overview

Gynecological Tumor Board is a comprehensive reference on clinical management of reproductive system cancers in women. Twenty nationally recognized leaders in the field of Gynecologic Oncology present cases—from diagnosis through medical/surgical treatment through QOL and long-term care—that reflect the clinical scenarios often found in the Gynecologic Oncology clinic, and present the best current guidelines for treating those conditions. Special "Editors' Comments" provide expert analysis and counterpoint to the cases.

 

Section Headlines:

Section I: Approach to Tumors of the Ovary

Section II: Approach to Tumors of the Uterine Corpus

Section III: Approach to Cervical Cancer

Section IV: Approach to Vulvar and Vaginal Cancers

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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

            Introduction written by Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum

 

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

            Larissa Meyer, MD and Bhavana Pothuri, MD

 

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

            Introduction written by Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum, MD

 

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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Don S. Dizon, MD, FACP-Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Medicine, Brown Medical School/Women & Infants' Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island

Dr. Dizon holds a dual appointment as Associate Professor in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is a 1991 graduate of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and trained in Internal Medicine at Yale New-Haven Hospital followed by Medical Oncology specialization at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). While at MSKCC he developed expertise in gynecologic malignancies and received a Career Development Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology for work on platinum drug resistance. He was a member of the Developmental Therapeutics faculty and Gynecology Disease Management Team of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center until 2003 when he assumed his current role as the director of Medical Oncology for the Program in Women’s Oncology of Women & Infants’ Hospital of Rhode Island, where he also serves as the Medical Director of the Program’s Integrative Care Program. In 2005 he helped establish the state’s first Center for Sexuality, Intimacy, and Fertility for women with cancer.  In 2005 he was elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and he is currently on the Board of Directors for the Rhode Island chapter of the ACP.  Nationally, he continues to pursue research in the novel treatments of both breast and gynecological cancers and is active in the Gynecologic Oncology Group, serving on Phase I, Developmental Therapeutics, and Cervix committees. He is the President of the National Consortium of Breast Centers and has federal funding to further explore the role of social networks in advance care planning of women with cancer.
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Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum, MD-Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum, M.D. is Associate Attending and Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery, and Resident and Medical Student Education, Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He completed his Internship and Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Baltimore Maryland and a Fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York He is in full-time practice of gynecologic oncology, and his clinical research interest is in gynecologic cancer surgery, including surgery for ovarian, uterine, and cervical cancers.

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