Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month

September is Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month, providing an opportunity to highlight the importance of prevention, early diagnosis and evidence-based management of gynecological cancers.

Over the past year, GLOWM’s Continuous Textbook of Women’s Medicine has expanded substantially, with the publication of a dedicated volume on Gynecological Cancer, alongside new chapters in Ultrasound in Gynecology. To mark this year’s Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month, we highlight some of these additions, including chapters, practical instructional videos and AI-generated conversational audio discussions.

Practical learning: ultrasound-guided core-needle biopsy

Image-guided Core-needle Biopsy in Gynecological Oncology is a comprehensive chapter detailing the indications, techniques, diagnostic performance, safety and training involved in ultrasound-guided core-needle biopsy. The chapter is accompanied by three highly didactic instructional videos, developed to demonstrate the practical aspects of the procedure:

Video 1: Indications for core-needle biopsy in gynecology
Clinical cases demonstrating the different indications for core-needle biopsy in gynecology and gynecological oncology.

Video 2: Methods for performing ultrasound-guided core-needle biopsy
Demonstration of transvaginal, transrectal, transcervical and percutaneous approaches to ultrasound-guided biopsy.

Video 3: Phantom-based and supervised in-vivo training for core-needle biopsy
Demonstration of phantom-based training and supervised clinical training for developing competence in the procedure.

Ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer can present diagnostic and therapeutic challenges, and management increasingly depends on accurate imaging, pathological classification and evolving systemic treatments.

New GLOWM chapters include:

The latest addition, Treatment of Recurrent Ovarian Cancer after First-line Therapy, was published in July 2026 and provides an up-to-date review of the management of recurrent disease.

Together, these resources cover important aspects of ovarian cancer from ultrasound assessment and pathological classification through to maintenance treatment and management of recurrent disease.

Cervical cancer

GLOWM’s new resources on cervical cancer address pathological issues as well as surgical, radiotherapeutic and systemic approaches to treatment.

These chapters provide perspectives ranging from the pathology of HPV-negative cervical cancers to contemporary surgical, radiotherapeutic and systemic treatment.

Endometrial and uterine cancers

New chapters also extend GLOWM’s coverage of endometrial cancer and uterine sarcoma.

These resources provide clinicians with detailed information on the diagnosis, pathology and management of these important gynecological malignancies.

Listen to the key points

Another new feature of GLOWM’s Continuous Textbook is a growing collection of AI-generated conversational audio discussions accompanying selected chapters.

These podcast-like discussions highlight and explain key issues covered in the written chapters, providing another way for healthcare professionals to engage with GLOWM’s educational content.

Explore GLOWM’s latest gynecological cancer resources

These new chapters, instructional videos and conversational audio discussions are helping GLOWM’s Continuous Textbook of Women’s Medicine evolve as a comprehensive, free educational resource for healthcare professionals worldwide.