Women and cancer

These 18 articles consider cancers that affect both men and women as well as those particular to women. They cover the effects of the near-epidemic rate of lung cancer on women, surgical treatment of breast cancer, including an analysis of tissue diagnoses and the outcomes of each surgical option, medical management and evaluation therapy for breast cancer, breast reconstruction surgery from a female surgeon's point of view, colorectal cancer and its effects on sexual function and body image, gynecological cancers (of the ovary, uterus, cervix, and vulva and gestational trophoblastic disease), psychosocial issues and their effects on women's body image during cancer treatment, sexuality and self-identity amongst women with cancer, cancer's effects on life cycles such as fertility and menopause, and treatment of women with venous thromboembolism and cancer.