Robert Bristow and Deborah MD Armstrong, editors. Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Series: Ovarian Cancer. Expert Consult – Online and Print. 256 pages. Elsevier, Philadelphia, USA. ISBN: 978-1-4160-4685-1. Price £139.00. Ovarian Cancer edited by Robert Bristow and Deborah Armstrong (both from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) is one of five in a series of texts on Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer. It is an excellently written, comprehensive, and up-to-date reference text on the subject. It has 26 contributors, 25 of whom are from the US, and one from Tel Aviv, Israel, but is global in its perspective of the topics covered. It is a glossy hardback that is easily readable and of average portable size. A brief series preface, and separate book preface, are followed by 222 pages divided into 12 chapters, varying in length from 12–35 pages, and a 12 page index. Chapter topics flow in a logical sequence from epidemiology, biology, and pathology; through genetics, prophylaxis, imaging, and screening; to surgery, chemotherapy, management of recurrence; a chapter on borderline and rarer histological tumor types; and a forward-looking conclusion chapter. Within each chapter, the layout is to be commended. The color scheme of grays and pastel blues is easy on the eye. Each chapter begins with a very clever and useful summary of ‘Key Points’ and has an introduction, emboldened titled subsections, a brief conclusion and comprehensive accurate reference list. Tabulated, graphical, boxed-summary, and diagrammatic representation of data, together with pictorial illustrations (color/black & white) of surgical and histopathological specimens, radiological images, interdigitated with relevant descriptive text paragraphs make for easy and enjoyable reading that stimulates and excites the interest of the reader throughout. All illustrations are clearly titled and labeled. Simple, accurate documentation and concise, but clear, language enhance the breadth and depth of the content covered in the text, and make for appealing clarity of information delivery. The content is comprehensive and includes not only basic science, molecular biology, and genetics, but clinical (including surgical, chemotherapeutic, and radiological) details; state-of-the-art histopathology including immunohistochemical analyses; up-to-date research developments (including biomarkers, tumor markers, and proteomics); results of national and international trials; and evidence-based recommendations for best practice in a variety of clinical situations. Follow-up is visited briefly, but the role of Palliative Care in ovarian cancer management is rather under-represented. Current controversies and dilemmas in clinical practice, such as the role of lymphadenectomy, are well explored. The concluding chapter, written by the editors, acknowledges the advances which have been made, whilst recognizing the many challenges still faced by those diagnosing and managing ovarian cancer. It ends on a very positive note, with a glimpse of anticipated future developments, and highlights the important role of multidisciplinary team care. A thoroughly brilliant read. It is well balanced, beautifully laid out, easily readable, with accurate, clear, and comprehensive text, supported by superb illustrations in a variety of formats. It is an up-to-date and state-of-the-art reference text that would be an excellent addition to any gynecological oncologist's library, but equally good reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, medical, and scientific staff, as well as today's highly informed patients and their relatives, at any stage of ovarian cancer management. I would recommend this text most highly and look forward to other books in the series, in the hope that future titles might include coverage of the other gynecological malignancies.