Medical Guidelines & Standards of Care

This publication provides comprehensive practical advice to health care providers at all levels of the health care system on how to prevent, detect early, treat and palliate cervical cancer.

This book reviews what is known about the occurrence, natural history and causes of cervical cancer, before describing the established methods and newer variants and approaches for screening that are now being introduced, tested or investigated. It also provides recommendations for the public health implementation of screening

Practical Manual on Visual Screening for Cervical Neoplasia (A), WHO, 2002

This book is a concise teaching manual on visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) and with Lugol's iodine to train health personnel, especially in developing countries, with the aim to detect this disease in the early pre-invasive phase and save women's lives.

Pathology and Genetics Tumours of the Breast and Female Genital Organs, WHO, 2003
This WHO classification covers the female and male breast, ovaries, fallopian tumours, uterine cervix, uterine corpus, vulva, vagina and inherited tumour syndromes. It includes a comprehensive classification of benign and malignant neoplasms. The book includes numerous color photographs, magnetic resonance images, CT scans and charts. In addition to its pathology and genetics, each lesion is described with its epidemiology, etiology, clinical features, as well as prognosis and predictive factors.

This new volume in the WHO series on histological and genetic typing of human tumours covers tumours of the kidney, the urinary system, the prostate, the testis and paratesticular tissue and the penis. Each entity is extensively discussed with information on clinicopathological, epidemiological, immunophenotypic and genetic aspects of these diseases.

Simple online guideline for early detection of some reproductive tract cancers and breast cancer.

Cervical Cancer Prevention Guidelines for Low-Resource Settings, JHPIEGO, 2005
This reference manual is designed for trainers and health care providers who are embarking on a cervical cancer prevention program that will focus on visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) and/or cryotherapy as the core programmatic elements. It includes a handbook for participants, a notebook for trainers, an interactive CD-ROM of cervical images, a companion handbook on performance support and anatomic models.

This introductory manual is intended to simplify the learning of colposcopy and treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia with cryotherapy and loop electrosurgical excision procedure so as to allow dissemination of the skills in low-resource settings.