Women For Oncology

Do Women Have a Prostate – Specific Antigen Level ? OncOlOgy

Sexual oncology: sexual health issues in women with cancer.

Sexual problems are widespread among female cancer patients and survivors. Dysfunction may result from various oncologic therapies such as surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormonal manipulation, and cytostatic medication. Additionally, psychologic distress that the patient or her partner experiences during diagnosis and treatment of malignancy can impair a healthy female sexual respons...

psycho-oncology: a common discipline for all!

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Brain mapping in Neurosurgical oncology

After the introduction of MRI, new modalities facilitated the procedure of surgical planning to achieve the microsurgical goal and improve prognosis and quality of life in patients. Despite the variable applications of preoperative and intraoperative mapping and monitoring systems, several limitations and concerns are reported for every modality as well. In this issue of the IrJNS, we are delig...

ESMO Women for Oncology 2016: a very personal tale of my professional life in Asia

In Thailand, 30 years ago, when I started my career as the first medical oncologist at the Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, cancer was considered to be an incurable disease and treatment with chemotherapy was generally considered ineffective. In the Department of Medicine, the only cancers that received chemotherapy were the haematological malignancies, and these were treated by haem...