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This volume is a unique, comprehensive treatise on gynecologic oncology, being an expanded version of a series of lectures given by the three authors to their residents, fellows, and medical students. In addition to chapters devoted to tumors of the female genital organs, there are discussions of more general topics such as cancer staging and classification, colposcopy, radiation biology and physics, chemotherapy, hyperalimentation, tumor immunology, and the care of the stoma. Basic principles of radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and tumor immunology are covered, as well as the practical aspects of these subjects. The chapters on specific tumors include a consideration of their pathology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. The text is up-to-date with over 700 references, many of them recent, and is supported by numerous photographs, diagrams, tables, and flow sheets. The defects of the book include those that are inevitable in any synopsis of a complicated subject. Because it
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