Gynecologic Oncology

INFLAMMATORY BREAST CANCER (IBC) is an advanced and accelerated form of breast cancer automatically rated as Stage IIIb that usually is not detected by mammograms or ultrasounds. It requires immediate aggressive treatment with chemotherapy prior to surgery and is treated differently than more common types of breast cancer.

Today, Putting Women's Health First launched a national campaign to educate women about cervical cancer, the role of human papillomavirus (HPV) role in its development, and the importance of effective screening in preventing the disease.

Cervical cancer is preventable. Early detection of pre-cancerous changes - through screening - is key.

Questions to help you begin the conversation about HPV and HPV testing with your doctor. These can help determine if HPV testing is right for you.

Research has emerged validating and confirming the recommendations of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Cancer Society, and the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology to screen women for cervical cancer every 3 years if they have a negative human papillomavirus (HPV) test and a normal Pap test. However, the researchers also found that Pap testing was important among women who tested positive for HPV since it helped identify women who developed cancer or precancer.

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Laparoscopic staging of apparent early ovarian cancer may be accomplished in patients where disease appears limited to the adnexa. For example a completely resected complex adnexal mass with intraoperative frozen-section revealing malignancy and no obvious limitation to complete laparoscopic staging.

The first carefully described abdominal supracervical hysterectomy was performed by Wilhelm Alexander Freund in 1878 and it was the leading technique for over 80 years. Tervilä described the danger of cervical cancer to be 0.3-1.9% following supracervical hysterectomy. Since 1950, hysterectomy has been performed almost exclusively as total hysterectomy, though since the 1990 interest in supracervical hysterectomy has been reawakened thanks to the introduction of Classic Intrafascial Supracervical Hysterectomy CISH) pelviscopic and laparotomy techniques .

For the past three decades, gynecologists have been utilizing the hysteroscope in the office to diagnose a variety of conditions that can be responsible for symptoms such as abnormal uterine bleeding, recurrent miscarriage, infertility, and post menopausal bleeding. The most common lesions found during diagnostic office hysteroscopy include cervical and uterine polyps, submucous myomata, uterine septae, intrauterine adhesions, endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancer.

The terminology used to describe pap smear results has changed over the past few years, leading to confusion about what the results of your pap smear actually mean. Originally, pap smears were divided into 5 "classes" based on what the cells looked like to the pathologist. Class I was normal, while class II cells appeared a little irregular to the pathologist, usually representing bacterial infection. Class III and IV pap smears suggested that dysplastic cells were present, and further testing needed to be done. Class V usually meant cancer.

Boston Scientific Corporation has alerted the public about a stolen shipment of medical devices for endoscopy and urology/women’s health.

The FDA and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly launched the “Fraudulent STD Products Initiative.” This campaign targets over-the-counter (OTC) products sold online or in retail stores that claim to prevent, cure, or treat sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

More than half of the 600,000 hysterectomies performed in the 1900s involved bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, and it has been estimated that many of those were performed solely to reduce the risk for ovarian cancer. While there has been increased knowledge in the risk in women with familial history, a knowledge gap still exists for other women, which could lead them down the path of potentially unnecessary surgery

Persistent infection with HPV is the principal cause of cervical cancer, with HPV implicated in more than 99% of cervical cancer cases worldwide.1 The cobas HPV (human papillomavirus) Test, recently approved by the FDA, identifies women at highest risk for the development of cervical cancer.

Dr Rebecca B. Perkins and colleagues recently found that the HPV vaccine was not being appropriately offered in a cohort of 136 young, low-income, minority women. The results of their study were presented at the Annual ACOG Meeting in Washington, DC.

Considered to be one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, human papillomavirus (HPV) infection affects an estimated 26.8% of females aged 14 years to 59 years. This statistic includes low-risk HPV, which can cause genital warts and other nonmalignant conditions, as well as high-risk HPV, which can cause cervical cancer.

Endometrial cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed gynecologic cancer in the United States. In fact, the number of women affected by the disease continues to rise despite a slight decline in annual incidence rates in the past 30 years.

Several high-risk forms of human papillomavirus (HPV) antibodies may be associated with an increased risk of lung cancer, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, held April 2 to 6 in Orlando, Fla.

Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a new imaging technology that allows noninvasive cross-sectional imaging, has high sensitivity for diagnosing cervical cancer, but low specificity, according to a study published in the March issue of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine.

Diabetes appears to be associated with a decreased risk of prostate cancer in men but an increased risk of other cancer types in both men and women, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, held April 2 to 6 in Orlando, Fla.

Performing surgeries laparoscopically offers patients faster recovery, decreased blood loss and transfusion rates, and less postoperative pain, but laparoscopic procedures in gynecologic oncology can be very challenging and requires significant technical expertise and experience. It is believed that the integration of robotics into these surgeries might offer a significant advantage in the learning curve, thus allowing more surgeons to offer this procedure to their patients. . . but is this an effective and safe alternative?