Gynecologic Oncology and Inclusion of Women Into the Surgical Workforce: The Canary in This Coal Mine.

Objective: Women make up a majority of the gynecologic oncology workforce. Increasing the numbers of women in leadership has been proposed as a path towards professional gender equity. This study examined whether leadership gender and departmental infrastructure impact the work environment for women gynecologic oncologists.

Take me to your leader: Reporting structures and equity in academic gynecologic oncology.

Objective: Gynecologic oncology includes increasing percentages of women. This study characterizes representation of faculty by gender and subspecialty in academic department leadership roles relevant to the specialty.

Methods: The American Association of Medical Colleges accredited schools of medicine were identified.

131I therapy using rhTSH stimulation and dosimetry in metastatic malignant struma ovarii.

A 38-year-old woman with metastatic malignant struma ovarii, including massive liver metastases and retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy, underwent ovarian resection and retroperitoneal lymph nodes excision, partial hepatectomy, and radiofrequency ablation for liver metastases. She underwent thyroidectomy and received three I treatments using recombinant human thyrotropin stimulation and radioiodine dosimetry. posttherapy I imaging, anatomic images, and thyroglobulin levels showed significant diminution in the tumor burdens and remarkable decline in thyroglobulin levels.

Sample entropy analysis of cervical neoplasia gene-expression signatures.

Background: We introduce Approximate Entropy as a mathematical method of analysis for microarray data. Approximate entropy is applied here as a method to classify the complex gene expression patterns resultant of a clinical sample set. Since Entropy is a measure of disorder in a system, we believe that by choosing genes which display minimum entropy in normal controls and maximum entropy in the cancerous sample set we will be able to distinguish those genes which display the greatest variability in the cancerous set.

Human papillomavirus vaccine: progress and the future.

A vaccine to prevent infection by human papillomavirus is available in the US. This article reviews the biology of human papillomavirus that allows for the development of both therapeutic and prophylactic vaccines. Issues that may delay the acceptance of the vaccine are discussed.

Computer-enhanced robotic surgery in gynecologic oncology.

Background: This study aimed to report the computer-enhanced robotic surgery experience of the authors' gynecologic oncology division.

Methods: From January 2001 to August 2006, 41 patients underwent laparoscopic surgery by our gynecologic oncology service using a computer-enhanced surgical robot. This report describes a retrospective review of these patients.

Recurrent mature cystic ovarian teratoma in adolescence: atypical case of the growing teratoma syndrome.

Background: A primary mature cystic ovarian teratoma was diagnosed in an adolescent female. She was followed up after initial exploration with computed tomography, pelvic ultrasonography, and serum tumor markers. Recurrent tumor, consisting solely of mature teratomatous elements, was confirmed with 2 subsequent laparotomies.

Primary gastrointestinal cancers presenting as gynecologic malignancies.

Objective: The goal of this study was to characterize presenting symptoms, prognostic factors, and treatment outcome in patients diagnosed with primary gastrointestinal (GI) cancers initially presumed to be of gynecologic origin.

Methods: A retrospective review of all admissions to the gynecologic oncology service at Saint Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, was performed between 1993 and 2003. Twenty-six patients with primary GI cancers who presented with presumed gynecologic malignancies were identified.