Recent surgical approaches to gynecologic oncology

The development of gynecologic oncology as a specialty has contributed to the progress of the treatment and management of women with genital and reproductive cancers. The trend toward less aggressive and less invasive surgery has yielded an improved quality of life for women with gynecologic cancer. Multimodal interdisciplinary care is the principle and practice of gynecologic oncology. Prevention and screening have not always kept stride with the other advances in treatment, which include diagnostic imaging, laparoscopic surgery, chemotherapy, genetic susceptibility, and tumor marker assays. Educating patients and health care providers is the challenge in gynecologic oncology.