Gynecologic Oncology
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OncoLink, The University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Resource
OncoLink has been established with the following objectives:
- Dissemination of information relevant to the field of oncology,
- Education of health care personnel,
- Education of patients, families, and other interested parties, and
- Rapid collection of information pertinent to the specialty.
- TeleSCAN: Telematics Services in Cancer
- TeleSCAN provides links and information for the general public, for medical professionals, and researchers, and provides facilities including information and map-based access to cancer organizations in Europe, a discussion forum and language support in major European languages.
- Oncology Regimens
- The On-line Guide is intended as a general reference only to supplement the existing knowledge of healthcare professionals. While the On-line Guide provides resources for quick access to referenced protocols, it should be recognized that many combination cancer regimens have variations.
- Genetic Testing: Breast & Ovarian Cancer Predisposition
- Statement of The American Society of Human Genetics on Genetic Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Predisposition.
- CancerLinks
- The services provided by the Allegheny Cancer Center include Clinical, Educational and Research information. It is comprehensive for both clinicians and patients and is extremely well designed and user friendly.
- Cancer Web
- Tutorials and guides
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Home Page
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- PUBLICATIONS - JOHN K. WIENCKE, Ph.D.
- American Public Health Association
- Technology Assessment: Chemotherapy Sensitivity and Resistance Assays
- Compare Chemotherapy and Hormone Therapy
- Chemotherapy and hormone therapy are also known as adjuvant or systemic therapy. They are used in some women in addition to surgery with or without radiotherapy.
- Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology
- The LTIB consists of five sections: the Experimental Oncology Section (EOS), the Oncogenetics Section (OS), the Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology Section (MCES), the Tumor Growth Factor Section (TGFS), and the Cellular Biochemistry Section (CBS).
- Nutrition in Cancer Care
- PDQ Supportive Care/Screening/Prevention Information: Nutrition
- Inability to maintain nutritional status is a particularly common problem for persons with cancer. The disease process and its treatment can lead to severe protein-calorie malnutrition, which is the single most common paraneoplastic syndrome or secondary diagnosis in the cancer patient.
Diagnosis and Management of Carcinoma of the Cervix
- Vaginal Smear Interactive Tutorial
- A variety of tutorials for medical professionals and patients
- Cervical Cancer Tutorial
- This tutorial is designed to cover several areas. You may proceed through each section in sequence or select individual topics by clicking the arrows. See also the NIH Consensus Development Report on cervical cancer.
- Cervical Cancer Screening: The PAP Smear
- Understand the importance of the Pap smear, including how it's done, what it means when it's abnormal and why it needs to be part of your regular health checkups.
- National Cervical Cancer Coalition
- NCCC is a grass roots advocacy group who's goal is to educate the public and legislators about the traditional pap smear, new technologies and reimbursement issues facing cervical cancer screening.
Does Gel Affect Cytology or Comfort in the Screening Papanicolaou Smear? M. Gilson, Maj, USAF, MC, A. Desai, Capt, USAF, MC, G. Cardoza-Favarato, Maj, USAF, MC, P. Vroman, Capt, USAF, MC and J. A. Thornton, PhD- Tumors of the Cervix
- A collection of images
Diagnosis and Management of Carcinoma of the Ovary
- Aggressive Surgical Effort and Improved Survival in Advanced-Stage Ovarian Cancer
Giovanni D. Aletti, MD, Sean C. Dowdy, MD, Bobbie S. Gostout, MD, Monica B. Jones, MD, C. Robert Stanhope, MD, Timothy O. Wilson, MD, Karl C. Podratz, MD, PhD and William A. Cliby, MD- Ovarian Germ Cell Tumor
- PDQ Information for Health Care Professionals
- Ovarian Low Malignant Potential Tumor
- PDQ Information for Health Care Professionals
Endometrial, Uterine, Vaginal and Vulvar Cancer
- Endometrial Cancer
- PDQ Information for Health Care Professionals
- Endometrial Cancer
- Endometrial cancer today is our most common gynecologic malignancy and approximately 35,000 new cases will be reported this year.
- Endometrial Cancer: Post Your Comment
- Uterine Sarcoma
- PDQ Information for Health Care Professionals
- Histologic Classification of Malignant Neoplasms of Uterine Corpus
- Uterine Sarcoma: A detailed guide
- Sarcomas, by definition, are tumors arising from connective tissue and are of mesodermal origin.
- Vaginal Cancer for Medical Professionals
- Vaginal Cancer
- Clinical version
- Vaginal Cancer
- Patient version
- Vulvar Cancer
- Patient version & Clinical version
Diagnosis and Management of Carcinoma of the Fallopian Tube
- Fallopian Tube Carcinoma
Diagnosis and Management of Gestational Trophoblastic Tumors
- Detailed Guide: Gestational Trophoblastic Disease: What Is Gestational Trophoblastic Disease?
- Gestational Trophoblastic disease, or "Cancer a Deux" as Roy Hertz has termed it, stands out as one of the most fascinating diseases and interesting chapters in the evolution of oncology.
- Gestational Trophoblastic Tumor
- PDQ Information for Health Care Professionals
- Treatment of Gestational Trophoblastic Disease at Mayo Clinic
- In the last 30 years, gestational trophoblastic disease has gone from one of the most fatal cancers in women to one of the potentially most curable, due to the development of effective chemotherapy.
- Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
- From Sloan-Kettering
- TALARIA: The Hypermedia Assistant for Cancer Pain Management
- Talaria, a resource for health care professionals, addresses the management of pain in patients with cancer. It provides a hypermedia implementation of the Clinical Practice Guideline on the Management of Cancer Pain, a publication of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. In addition, this site includes supplementary tools and information. For example, the opioid calculator will assist physicians in converting dosages across drugs and routes of administration.
- Oncolink: Introduction to Cancer Pain Management
- Includes information on incidence, causes, assessment, and both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic management.
- OncoLink OncoTip: "Pain Management for the Cancer Patient"
- James Metz, MD discusses pain management for cancer patients.
- Pennsylvania Cancer Pain Initiative Newsletters
- OncoLink is proud to host the online version of The Pennsylvania Cancer Pain Initiative Newsletter, a quarterly publication. The Pennsylvania Cancer Pain Initiative is a volunteer organization funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Health's Cancer Control Program.
- Guidelines for the Invasive Management of Cancer Pain
- An American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Task Force, chaired by F. Michael Ferrante, MD, director of the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center's newly formed Cancer Pain and Symptom Management Program, is nearing the end of a three-year mission to develop easy-to-use guidelines for the management of cancer pain using invasive techniques. These guidelines will supplement existing protocols that address the use of oral medications for pain management.
American Cancer Society
Canada Cancer Society
Intercultural Cancer Council
International Agency for Research on Cancer
CDC's National Center For Health Statistics
National Cancer Policy Board
American Cancer Society, Breast Cancer Network
International Union Against Cancer
North American Association of Central Cancer Registries
National Cancer Registrars Association
National Cervical Cancer Coalition
American College of Surgeons
American Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP)
Society For Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology of Singapore
Society of Gynecologic Oncologists
Canadian Association of Radiologists
American College of Radiology RADlink(TM)
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
- The 185delAG Alteration in BRCA1: What does this mean for Jewish women?
- In a recent research study, one particular alteration in BRCA1, known as 185delAG, was found to occur more frequently in a group of Jews of Eastern European descent (Ashkenazi Jews) than among other ethnic groups in the study.