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Oncologic Gynecology – a new subspecialty in Poland

Jan Zieliński

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GIN ONKOL, 2003, Vol 1 Numer 1
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“Subspecialisation has been good for patient care. It is possible that all the advances in oncology, diagnosis and therapy, advanced reproductive technology and perinatal medicine would have taken place without subspecialty development – possible but unlikely…”
W.H. Pearse


I consider it a great honor and privilege, that as President of Polish Society of Oncologic Gynecology (PTGO) I have an opportunity to present on the pages of the first issue of the new journal “Ginekologia Onkologiczna” some aspects of this subspecialty stemming from obstetrics-gynecology, which has been recognized many years ago in several countries and approved in Poland only in April 2003.
American Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology was the first to recognize oncologic gynecology as a subspecialty in 1970, one year after the foundation of the Society and appearance of the first issue of the journal “Gynecological Oncology”.
The aim of this subspecialty and journal was to improve the care of women with a diagnosis of cancer of reproductive organs and to improve treatment outcomes by better education of specialists in this field.

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