Recent Advances in Gynecologic Oncology

A special issue of Reproductive Medicine (ISSN 2673-3897).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 10926

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Divison of Gynecology and Perinatology, University Medical Centre Maribor, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Interests: gynecologic oncology; ultrasound; breast cancer
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Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Faculty of Medicine University of Maribor, Taborska ulica 8, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Interests: endometrial cancer; endometriosis; biomarkers in gynecology; ultrasound; gynecological oncology
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Divison of Gynecology and Perinatology, University Medical Centre Maribor, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Interests: breast cancer; gynecologic oncology; ultrasound

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Divison of Gynecology and Perinatology, University Medical Centre Maribor, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Interests: gynecologic oncology; colposcopy; preventive medicine

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Gynecologic oncology is a rapidly evolving field of medicine that integrates knowledge from various fields and often requires a multidisciplinary approach when planning the treatment. Clinical, radiological and molecular information must all be included in the treatment plan. Recent molecular advances in endometrial and ovarian cancer have improved our understanding of these diseases and their response to treatment and moved the trend of treatment towards personalized medicine. There are, however, still many questions that remain unanswered, such as the best approach in advanced ovarian cancer, the role of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in fertility-sparing treatment of cervical cancer, and many more. This Special Issue aims to answer these seemingly unanswerable questions.

Prof. Dr. Iztok Takač
Prof. Dr. Jure Knez
Prof. Dr. Darja Arko
Prof. Dr. Andraž Dovnik
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Keywords

  • endometrial cancer
  • ovarian cancer
  • cervical cancer
  • vulvar cancer
  • ultrasound
  • colposcopy

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Ovarian Cancer: Treatment and Resistance to Pharmacotherapy
by David Lukanović, Borut Kobal and Katarina Černe
Reprod. Med. 2022, 3(2), 127-140; https://doi.org/10.3390/reprodmed3020011 - 9 May 2022
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Despite advances in surgical techniques and chemotherapy, ovarian cancer is still a leading cause of death among gynecological cancers. In addition to the late detection of the disease, the main reason for poor prognosis is resistance to pharmacotherapy, mostly platinum compounds. About a [...] Read more.
Despite advances in surgical techniques and chemotherapy, ovarian cancer is still a leading cause of death among gynecological cancers. In addition to the late detection of the disease, the main reason for poor prognosis is resistance to pharmacotherapy, mostly platinum compounds. About a third of patients do not respond to primary platinum-based chemotherapy treatment, and over time, eventually, 80% of other patients develop chemoresistance, which makes the recurrence of disease incurable. In this review, we describe a difficult clinical hurdle faced in ovarian cancer therapy as a result of platinum resistance, as well as resistance to newer targeted therapy with PARP inhibitors and bevacizumab. We, furthermore, give attention also to the role of the tumor microenvironment as it is less well understood than the tumor cell-intrinsic mechanism. Because a central goal in ovarian cancer research is the development of novel strategies to overcome chemoresistance, treatment for cancer is moving toward personalized therapy. Full article
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