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. 2016 Jan 14:5:308.
doi: 10.3389/fonc.2015.00308. eCollection 2015.

The Relevance of Gynecologic Oncologists to Provide High-Quality of Care to Women with Gynecological Cancer

Lucas Minig  1 , Pablo Padilla-Iserte  1 , Cristina Zorrero  1
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The Relevance of Gynecologic Oncologists to Provide High-Quality of Care to Women with Gynecological Cancer

Lucas Minig et al. Front Oncol. .

Abstract

Gynecologic oncologists have an essential role to treat women with gynecological cancer. It has been demonstrated that specialized physicians who work in multidisciplinary teams to treat women with gynecological cancers are able to obtain the best clinical and oncological outcomes. However, the access to gynecologic oncologists for women with suspected gynecological cancer is scarce. Therefore, this review analyzes the importance of specialized care of women with ovarian, cervical, and endometrial cancer. In addition, the role of gynecologic oncologists who offer fertility-sparing treatment as well as their role in assisting general gynecologists and obstetricians is also reviewed.

Keywords: centralization of care; cervical cancer; endometrial cancer; fellowship-training program; gynecologic oncologists; ovarian cancer; vulvar cancer.

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Multidisciplinary team to treat women with gynecological cancer.
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Multidisciplinary care in a gynecological cancer unit.
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