The 21st Century Handbook of Clinical Ovarian Cancer (PDF)

Administration approval of bevacizumab in advanced cervical cancer on August 14, 2014. Dr Tewari has been listed for seven consecutive years as one of the Top Doctors in Orange County and has been listed in Best Doctors of America for the past 4 years. An expert in robotic surgery, for the past 2 years Dr Tewari has been traveling every 8 months to conduct robotic surgery workshops in different cities in India for women diagnosed with early stage cervical and endometrial cancer.

 

Bradley J Monk, MD, received his medical degree from the University of Arizona in 1988 where he graduated at the top of his class. He then underwent training in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California (UC) Los Angeles between 1988 and 1992, and gynecologic oncology at the UC Irvine between 1992 and 1995. In 1995, he was appointed the Director of gynecology oncology at Texas Tech University and Associate Director of the Southwest Cancer Center where he served until 1998. Since 1998, he has been a member of the faculty at UC Irvine where he currently is Associate Professor (with tenure). He is board certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and gynecologic oncology. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He is also an active full member of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the American Association of Cancer Research. Dr Monk has been an investigator for the Gynecologic Oncology Group since 1995 and is the Chair of the Cervical Committee along with serving on the tissue utilization and publications committees. He is the Co-Principal Investigator for the Gynecologic Oncology Group at UC Irvine and Study Chair for both group wide phase III trials in cervical carcinoma and also serves as the study chair or co-chair for seven other trials investigating new therapies in cervical and ovarian cancer. Dr Monk has received career development funding (K-23) from the National Cancer Institute to investigate new strategies against HPV-related illnesses and, in addition, is funded by the National Cancer Institute to study therapeutic HPV vaccines. Dr Monk has over 90 peer-review publications predominantly dealing with the areas of cervical and ovarian cancer prevention, therapeutics as well as issues related to quality of life. He has also published 15 book chapters and is on the Editorial Board for Gynecologic Oncology and The American Journal of Hematology/Oncology and is a past President of the Orange County OB/GYN Society.