Editors: Jeffrey M. Goldberg, MD, Ceana H. Nezhat, MD, and Jay Sandlow, MD
Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 164 pages
Book Review by: Nano Khilnani
A major concern among women is the preservation of fertility when they have cancer. This concern, and how to address it, is discussed in chapter 10, Female Fertility Preservation Surgery, authored by Sara Arian, Rebecca Flyckt, and Tommaso Falcone.
The authors of this chapter point out that according to statistics of the National Cancer Institute, about 10 percent of new cases of invasive cancers in the United States are diagnosed in women of reproductive age who plan to undergo cancer treatments.
While patient survival rates have been increasing in recent decades, many treatment options include chemotherapy and radiation, which can negatively a woman’s reproductive health and her ability to bear children.
The authors point out in this chapter that there are three major fertility preservation strategies that can be used either singly or in combination. These include medical options, surgical options, or assisted reproductive technologies (including oocyte and embryo crypto-preservation as the standard options) available to preserve the fertility of young women with cancer.
This is one of the many important issues discussed in this book. There are several others, and you can take a look at the chapter list below which ones are most important to you currently.
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Within the area of health care, the medical books we have reviewed pertain to numerous medical specialties. We have probably done very few reviews of books relating to reproductive medicine, so the present one fills that need.
Twenty-six specialists in reproductive surgery from all over the United States, and one from Canada, authored the 16 chapters of this book on surgical procedures relating to the human reproductive system. We list the chapters below, providing you an overview of this book:
- Hysteroscopy: Office and Operative – Myomectomy, Polypectomy, and Adhesiolysis
- Adhesions in Reproductive Surgery: Treatment and Prevention
- Mullerian Anomalies
- Ovarian Surgery with a Focus on Reproduction
- Surgical Management of Proximal and Distal Tubal Disease
- Tubal Anastomosis for Reversal of Tubal Ligation
- Surgical Management of Ectopic Pregnancy
- Surgical Management of Uterine Myomas
- Laparoscopic Surgery for the Management of Endometriosis
- Female Fertility Preservation Surgery
- The Role of robotics in Reproductive Surgery
- Vasectomy Reversal
- Varicocele Repair
- Surgical Sperm Retrieval Methods
- Surgical Management of Ejaculatory Duct obstruction for Male Infertility
- Fertility Considerations in Scrotal Surgery
Currently, there are relatively few books on the market on the subject of reproductive surgery, and this two-word phrase actually includes the entire gamut of corrective surgical procedures relating human reproduction, as you can see for yourself in the list above.
When we typed in ‘reproductive surgery’ on Amazon, we found only 306 books, whereas we usually find thousands of them, sometimes even tens of thousands of books. And which book among the 306 pertaining to ‘Reproductive Surgery’ was on the very top? The one you reading about !
What does being on the very top mean for this book: – Reproductive Surgery – The Society of Reproductive Surgeons’ Manual? It plainly and simply means: this is the most popular and most widely read book on the topic of reproductive surgery!
Editors:
Jeffrey M. Goldberg, MD is Professor and Head of Reproductive Endocrinology at the Cleveland Clinic Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics and is the Director of the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellowship program. He is Past President of the Society f Reproductive Surgeons.
Ceana H. Nezhat, MD is Fellowship Director for Atlanta Center for Special Minimally Invasive Surgery and Reproductive Medicine, Director of Training and Education at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, Adjunct Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory University School of Medicine, and President of the Society of Reproductive Surgeons.
Jay Sandlow, MD is currently Professor and Vice Chairman of Urology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He is actively involved in all Andrology and male infertility societies, including the Society for the Study of Male Reproduction (SSMR), the Society for Male Reproduction and Urology (SMRU, and the American Society of Andrology (ASA) all of which he is a Past President. He is also an active member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, where he has served as the SMRU representative to the Practice Guidelines Committee.
