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Original Articles

• Gynecologic cancer patients' psychosocial needs and their views on the physician's role in meeting those needs (1 February, 2003)

  B. E. Miller, B. Pittman, C. Strong
• CA125 levels are a weak predictor of optimal cytoreductive surgery in patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (1 February, 2003)

  S. Memarzadeh, S. B. Lee, J. S. Berek, R. Farias-Eisner
• Distant metastases in ovarian carcinoma (1 February, 2003)

  G. Cormio, C. Rossi, A. Cazzolla, L. Resta, G. Loverro, P. Greco, L. Selvaggi
• Gemcitabine combined with cisplatin as first-line treatment in patients 60 years or older with epithelial ovarian cancer: a phase II study (1 February, 2003)

  T. Bauknecht, A. Hefti, G. Morack, C. Villena-Heinsen, D. Wallwiener, D. Elling, G. V. Minckwitz, K. Mansouri, J. Blatter, G. P. Breitbach
• The use of continuous infusion topotecan in persistent and recurrent ovarian cancer (1 February, 2003)

  J. C. Elkas, C. H. Holschneider, B. Katz, A. J. Li, R. Louie, K. F. Mcgonigle, J. S. Berek
• Weekly paclitaxel in patients with recurrent or persistent advanced ovarian cancer (1 February, 2003)

  S. Ghamande, S. Lele, D. Marchetti, T. Baker, K. Odunsi
• Polymorphism at the –308-promoter position of the tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) gene and cervical cancer (1 February, 2003)

  G. A. Stanczuk, E. N. Sibanda, S. A. Tswana, S. Bergstrom
• Association of human papillomavirus viral load with HPV16 and high-grade intraepithelial lesion (1 February, 2003)

  M. C. Abba, S. A. Mourón, M. A. GÓMEZ, F. N. Dulout, C. D. Golijow
• Is bacterial vaginosis associated with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia? (1 February, 2003)

  D. C. M. Boyle, S. E. Barton, S. Uthayakumar, P. E. Hay, J. W. Pollock, P. J. Steer, J. R. Smith
• Phase III randomized pilot study comparing interferon α- 2b in combination with radiation therapy versus radiation therapy alone in patients with stage III-B carcinoma of the cervix (1 February, 2003)

  R. Yazigi, G. Aliste, R. Torres, A. M. Ciudad, M. Cuevas, J. Garrido, S. Prado, A. Solá, R. Castillo, B. Cerda, M. A. Cumsille, M. González, C. Navarro, J. M. Reyes
• Use of small pelvic field instead of whole pelvic field in postoperative radiotherapy for node-negative, high-risk stages I and II cervical squamous cell carcinoma (1 February, 2003)

  K. Ohara, H. Tsunoda, M. Nishida, S. Sugahara, T. Hashimoto, Y. Shioyama, K. Hasezawa, H. Yoshikawa, Y. Akine, Y. Itai
• Simple hysterectomy in the presence of invasive cervical cancer in Iran (1 February, 2003)

  N. Behtash, A. Mousavi, M. Mohit, M. Modares, N. Khanafshar, P. Hanjani
• Intraoperative sentinel node identification with Technetium-99m-labeled nanocolloid in patients with cancer of the uterine cervix: A feasibility study (1 February, 2003)

  P. A. Van Dam, J. Hauspy, T. Vanderheyden, H. Sonnemans, A. Spasepen, G. Eggenstein, L. Dirix, L. Verkinderen
• Radiofrequency bipolar coagulation for radical hysterectomy: Technique, feasibility and complications (1 February, 2003)

  A. Ercoli, A. Fagotti, M. Malzoni, G. Ferrandina, T. Susini, C. Malzoni, G. Scambia
• No relationship is indicated between FHIT expression and clinicopathologic prognostic parameters in early stage cervical carcinoma (1 February, 2003)

  C. Baykal, A. Ayhan, A. Al, K. YÜCE, A. Ayhan
• Multivariate independent prognostic factors in endometrial carcinoma: A clinicopathologic study in 181 patients (1 February, 2003)

  E. Steiner, O. Eicher, J. Sagemüller, M. Schmidt, H. Pilch, B. Tanner, J. G. Hengstler, M. Hofmann, P. G. Knapstein
• Prognostic value of age and histologic type in neoadjuvant chemotherapy plus radical surgery for bulky (≥4 cm) stage IB and IIA cervical carcinoma (1 February, 2003)

  H.-J. Huang, T.-C. Chang, J.-H. Hong, C.-J. Tseng, H.-H. Chou, K.-G. Huang, C.-H. Lai
• The role of omentectomy during the surgical staging of uterine serous carcinoma (1 February, 2003)

  P. A. Gehrig, L. Van Le, W. C. Fowler
• A pilot study of topotecan in the treatment of serous carcinoma of the uterus (1 February, 2003)

  J. T. Chambers, T. J. Rutherford, P. E. Schwartz, M. L. Carcangiu, S. K. Chambers, L. Baker
• Hysteroscopy does not increase the risk of microscopic extrauterine spread in endometrial carcinoma (1 February, 2003)

  L. Selvaggi, G. Cormio, O. Ceci, G. Loverro, A. Cazzolla, S. Bettocchi
• An appraisal of 18F-FDG PET imaging in post-therapy surveillance of uterine cancers: Clinical evidence and a research proposal (1 February, 2003)

  T. Belhocine
• Gestational trophoblastic syndrome: An audit of 112 patients. A South African experience (1 February, 2003)

  M. Moodley, K. Tunkyi, J. Moodley