Rare Gynecologic Tumors: Coming of Age

The period prior to the year 2000 might legitimately be termed the “one size fits all” era with respect to the management of gynecologic malignancies. All cancers were defined by two features—site or organ of origin and microscopic cell type. With few exceptions (certain uterine sarcomas, malignant ovarian germ cell tumors, sex cord-stromal ovarian tumors, etc.), all subtypes within each site of origin category (epithelial ovarian cancers,...