Book Review: Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of cervical cancer

Tuttlingen, Germany: Endo-Press; 2013 ISBN 978-3-89756-448-0 Tel: +49 (0) 74 61/1 45 90 Fax: +49 (0) 74 61/708-529 E-mail: Endopress@t-online.de In 2013, I had the opportunity to contact Professor Achim Schneider of Chaité University Hospital and Professor Micahel Höckel of University of Leipzig for a short-term training in my area of medical interest, sentinel lymph node mapping and aggressive surgery for gynecologic cancers, particularly cervical cancer. Professor Micahel Höckel welcomed my visit. Since Professor Achim Schneider had retired and did not perform surgeries any longer, he introduced me to his coworker for the short-term training and readily sent me his book and DVD presenting his laparoscopic procedures for sentinel lymph node mapping. The title of the book is “Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of cervical cancer.” I was extremely impressed with this book, and herein, I present a review of the same. Before Professor Schneider introduces the contents of the book, he states, “I express my sincere thanks to our patients for their confidence and continuous cooperativeness. My gratitude and recognition go to the past and current coworkers...” in the Acknowledgements, which made me realize that the book includes a wealth of information from his clinical experiences with many gynecologic patients and the essence of accumulated clinical data generated in collaboration with his colleagues. As I expected, the book extensively covers essential topics on cervical cancer in terms of the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. All contents are shown as Power Point presentations with suitable explanations. The book is composed of the following three parts: primary prevention including the topics of epidemiology of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated disease and the efficacy and safety of HPV vaccines; secondary prevention including details on histology, cytology, HPV testing, and colposcopy as well as treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; tertiary prevention including the topics of diagnosis, staging, and treatment modalities such as surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Details on the subject of my interest, sentinel lymph node mapping, are included as a part of tertiary Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of cervical cancer