We offer comprehensive, leading-edge care for women with gynecologic cancers. Progress in minimally invasive surgery techniques, including refinements in robotics — we employ the latest da Vinci® Surgical System platforms — have transformed the treatment of these cancers. For patients with endometrial cancer, we routinely perform robotic-assisted hysterectomies and lymph node dissections that require an average length of stay of only one day. The sensitivity and specificity of our sentinel lymph node mapping approach spares many young women from complete lymph node dissection and attendant complications. Our innovations in radical trachelectomy for early cervical cancer have enabled many women to preserve their fertility. Notable as well are recent enhancements in chemotherapy regimens and progress in vaccine trials.
Read about clinical and research advances in ovarian, endometrial, cervical, and other cancers from our gynecologic oncology experts.
Summer 2011
Fertility Preservation in Gynecologic Oncology Patients
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- Oncologic Outcome of Radical Trachelectomy
Yukio Sonoda, MD - Selected Clinical Treatment Protocols
Winter 2011
Progress Toward Individualized Cancer Care
- Vaccine Trials for Ovarian Cancer
Paul Sabbatini, MD
Download Article - PARP Inhibitors: BRCA Patients and Beyond
Katherine M. Bell-McGuinn, MD, PhD
Download Article - Molecular Medicine for Ovarian and Endometrial Cancer
Douglas A. Levine, MD
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Summer 2010
Highlights from the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists' 2010 Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer
- A Prospective Study of Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Pelvic Exenteration: Interim Results
Youssef Rezk, MD and Dennis Chi, MD
Download Article - A Nomogram for Predicting Overall Survival of Women with Endometrial Cancer Following Primary Therapy: Toward Improving Individualized Cancer Care
Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum, MD
Download Article - The Revised 2009 FIGO Staging System for Endometrial Cancer: Should the 1988 FIGO Stages IA and IB Be Altered?
Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum, MD
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March 2010
Podcast - Ovarian Cancer: Improving Patient Outcomes
Ginger Gardner, MD, Chair of the American College of OB/GYN Ovarian Cancer Task Force, leads an educational podcast that features the latest information regarding ovarian cancer: recognition and evaluation of ovarian cancer signs, symptoms, and risk factors, appropriate referral techniques for utilizing a gynecologic oncologist, and management of ovarian cancer, as well as community resources that are available to both providers and patients.
Fall 2009
Progress in Minimally Invasive Surgery
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Gynecologic Robotic Surgery Program
Mario M. Leitao, Jr., MD
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Sentinel Lymph Node Program
Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum, MD
Fady Khoury-Collado, MD
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Trachelectomy Update
Yukio Sonoda, MD
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Spring 2009
Highlights from the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists' 2009 Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer
- Upper Abdominal Disease Cephalad to the Greater Omentum and the Impact on Progression-Free Survival in Patients with Stage IIIC Ovarian Cancer
Oliver Zivanovic, MD
Download Article - The Incidence of Major Surgical Complications After the Performance of Extensive Upper Abdominal Surgical Procedures During Primary Cytoreduction of Advanced Ovarian, Tubal, and Peritoneal Carcinomas
Dennis S. Chi, MD
Download Article - The Use of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) to Evaluate the Extent of Pleural Effusion and Guide Primary Management Decisions in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Advanced Ovarian Carcinoma
John P. Diaz, MD
Download Article - CA125 Regression in Ovarian Cancer Patients Treated with Intravenous versus Intraperitoneal Platinum-Based Chemotherapy - A Gynecologic Oncology Group Study
Ginger J. Gardner, MD
Download Article - Selected Clinical Treatment Protocols (Revised June 2009)
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Fall 2008
Pathology Updates in the Field of Gynecologic Oncology
- Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer
Karuna Garg, MD - Histologic Subclassification of Ovarian Cancer
Robert A. Soslow, MD - HPV-Unassociated Cervical Cancer
Kay J. Park, MD - Distinguishing Breast Metastasis from an Ovarian Primary
Melissa Murray, DO
Summer 2008
Current Issues in Breast Cancer for the Gynecologist
- Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Amer Karam, MD - Update on Adjuvant Hormone Therapy
Heather L. McArthur, MD
Tiffany A. Traina, MD - Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
Chau Dang, MD
Fall 2007
Current Issues in Cervical Cancer
- Cervical Cancer Screening and HPV Vaccination: Improved Technologies for HPV Disease Detection and Prevention
Maureen Killackey, MD, FACOG, FACS - Robotically Assisted Procedures in Gynecologic Oncology
Mario M. Leitao, Jr., MD - Quality of Life: Trachelectomy Studies
Jeanne Carter, PhD
Summer 2007
Survivorship and Quality-of-Life Issues: Lymphedema
- Lower-Extremity Lymphedema in Patients with Gynecologic Cancer
Richard R. Barakat, MD - Lower-Extremity Lymphedema: The Nursing Perspective
Kathleen Appollo, RN, BSN, OCN - Symptomatic Lower-Extremity Lymphedema Following Treatment of Uterine Corpus Malignancies
Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum, MD
Spring 2007
New Agents for Treating Gynecologic Malignancies
- Targeting Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) for the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer
William P. Tew, MD - Consolidation Therapy for Ovarian Cancer in First Remission
Paul J. Sabbatini, MD - A Phase 2 Study of Halichondrin B (E7389) in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer
Martee L. Hensley, MD - A National Phase 2 Study of the Role of Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Completely Resected Uterine Leiomyosarcoma (SARC 005)
Martee L. Hensley, MD
