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Gynecologic oncology: progress not withstanding.

E C Grendys
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This issue of Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology focuses on the rapidly changing field of gynecologic oncology. Initially regarded as pure radical pelvic and abdominal surgery, the subspeciality has evolved into a field of significant scientific discovery ranging from research in evolving surgical technology on a macroscopic level to DNA sequencing and gene therapy on a submicroscopic scale. The following reviews focus on some of these recent efforts to study, diagnose and treat gynecologic malignancies.

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E C Grendys. 1998. Gynecologic oncology: progress not withstanding.. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001703-199802000-00001

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