Cancers of the female genital system

Abstract

This chapter covers cancers of the female genital system. Topics include cervical cancer (clinical features, investigations, staging, and prognosis, management, recurrent cancer, chemotherapy, treatment-related morbidity, and newer approaches); endometrial cancer (management, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and hormonal agents, and recurrence and metastasis); uterine sarcomas; epithelial ovarian cancer (investigations, staging, and prognosis, early and advanced stage disease, recurrent disease, and palliative issues); malignant ovarian germ cell tumours (management, prognosis, surveillance, and management of recurrence); sex cord-stromal tumours; borderline ovarian tumours; uncommon ovarian tumours; gestational trophoblastic disease (management of gestational trophoblastic neoplasia, high-risk disease, and special situations); and cancers of the vulva and vagina.