Surgical chores and approach in the management of endometrial cancerJ N McAlpine
Women s Cancer Center, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
Curr Opin Oncol 14:512-8. 2002
..Several controversies exist, however, regarding optimal surgical management. Some of these controversies are addressed in this article, with a review of their recent and historic literature...
- Radiation fields in gynecologic oncology: correlation of soft tissue (surgical) to radiologic landmarks
J McAlpine
Women s Cancer Center, Palo Alto, CA 95032, USA
Gynecol Oncol 92:25-30. 2004
..to determine if a patient's body mass index (BMI) correlates with these anatomic or radiographic boundaries...
- Extrarenal Wilms' tumor of the uterine corpus
J McAlpine
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
Gynecol Oncol 96:892-6. 2005
..Extrarenal Wilms' tumors (EWT) are rare. In the female genital tract, only 15 cases (6 adults, 9 children) of EWT have been reported. A case of uterine Wilms' tumor in an adult is presented with a review of the literature...
- Atypical presentations of carboplatin hypersensitivity reactions: characterization and management in patients with gynecologic malignancies
Jessica N McAlpine
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
Gynecol Oncol 103:288-92. 2006
..We describe the "atypical platinum reactions" (APH) of 14 patients and our experience with skin testing and desensitization...
- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy lessens surgical morbidity in advanced ovarian cancer and leads to improved survival in stage IV disease
June Y Hou
Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Gynecol Oncol 105:211-7. 2007
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- Upstaging based solely on positive peritoneal washing does not affect outcome in endometrial cancer
Oluwole Fadare
Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
Mod Pathol 18:673-80. 2005
..5%), but does not appear to affect their overall outcome. Although this is a small single site study, it raises questions about the value of this procedure in patients with endometrial cancer...
Xenografts of primary human gynecological tumors grown under the renal capsule of NOD/SCID mice show genetic stability during serial transplantation and respond to cytotoxic chemotherapyJoshua Z Press
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B C, Canada V6H 3V5
Gynecol Oncol 110:256-64. 2008
..The response to conventional chemotherapy and novel molecular targeted chemotherapy is assessed in one of the transplantable xenograft lines...
