Self Help Health Guides: Cervical Cancer

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The only text to provide both the patient"s and doctor"s views, Jones and Bartlett Self Help Health Guides Cervical Cancer aims to provide a much needed primer for patients and their families, addressing the questions most relevant to a woman following a diagnosis of pre-invasive changes orinvasive cervical cancer. This text gives up-to-date, authoritative, practical answers to your questions about cervical cancer, not only regarding the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, but also female survivorship. Jones and Bartlett Self Help Health Guides Cervical Cancer is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this frightening disease.

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Don S. Dizon MD, is a board-certified medical oncologist specializing in the care of women"s cancers. He received his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and trained in Internal Medicine at Yale-N ew Haven Hospital. He received his training in Medical Oncology at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center and was a member of the Gynecologic Oncology Disease Management team and Clinical Assistant Attending in the Development Therapeutics Program. He is a past recipient of a Clinical Development Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology to evaluate platinum resistance in ovarian cancer. In 2003, he departed Memorial Sloan-Kettering for Women & Infants" Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, where he now serves as the Director of Medical Oncology and Integrative Care and is Co-Director of the Center for Sexuality, Intimacy, and Fertility for the Program in Women"s Oncology. He holds a dual appointment in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine in the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is a member of the Gynecologic Oncology Group and serves on the Developmental Therapeutics Committee and Phase I Subcommittee. In 2005, he was elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He continues to conduct clinical research in survivorship, decision making, and novel treatments in women"s cancers. Michael L. Krychman MD, is the Medical Director of The Sexual Medicine Center at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, California and the Executive Director of the Southern California Center for Sexual Health and Survivorship Medicine also located in Newport Beach, California. He is the former Co-Director of The Sexual Medicine and Rehabilitation Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and was an associate clinical attending faculty member at Cornell- Weil Medical School in New York City. Previously on hospital staff at Temple University Hospital and Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia, he was the Medical Director of Labor and Delivery. Dr. Krychman holds licenses from three states including California, Pennsylvania, and New York and is a board certified obstetrician and gynecologist. He is also a clinical sexologist and has completed his Masters in Public Health and Human Sexuality. Paul A. DiSilvestro MD, is a board-certified gynecologic oncologist specializing in the care of women"s cancers. He received his MD from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and trained in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Women & Infants" Hospital/Brown University School of Medicine in Providence, Rhode Island. He then completed a Gynecologic Oncology fellowship at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Dr. DiSilvestro has served as academic faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and most recently with the Program in Women"s Oncology at Women & Infants" Hospital/Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He is the Principal Investigator for Gynecologic Oncology Group research at Women & Infant"s Hospital and serves on the Ovarian Cancer Committee and the Cancer Prevention and Control Committee of the Gynecologic Oncology Group. He currently serves as the Principal Investigator of a National Cancer Institute/Gynecologic Oncology Group trial for the treatment of cervical cancer. Elected as a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American College of Surgeons, Dr. DiSilvestro continues to make clinical research into the treatment of gynecologic cancer the main focus of his academic career. Table of Contents Introduction Part 1: The Basics Part 2: Risk Factors and Cofactors Part 3: Screening and Early Cervical Changes Part 4: Treatment of Abnormal Pap Tests Part 5: Diagnosis and Staging: Invasive Cervical Cancer Part 6: Treatment of Invasive Cervical Cancer: Early-StageDisease Part 7: Treatment of Invasive Cervical Cancer: Locally Advanced Disease Part 8: Treatment of Metastatic, Advanced, or Recurrent Cervical Cancer Part 9: Treatment at the End of Life Part 10: Survivorship Issues After Cervical Cancer Part 11: Sexuality After Cervical Cancer Part 12: Fertility and Cervical Cancer Part 13: Prevention and Screening Glossary Index