Published analyses combining groups of patients with different risk profiles have created confusion surrounding patient selection for adjuvant treatment after surgery for endometrial cancer. As a result, no randomized trial has demonstrated a survival benefit with the addition of adjuvant radiation
More »In this issue of ONCOLOGY, Diavolitsis et al have provided an excellent overview of the literature and state of our understanding of the role of adjuvant therapy in the treatment of endometrial cancer.
More »Patients with endometrial cancer who have minimally invasive robotic-assisted hysterectomies tend to have quicker surgeries and shorter hospital stays compared with patients who have similar laparoscopic surgical procedures, according to new research from The Ohio State University Comprehensive...
More »The first phase III study of its kind has found that vaginal brachytherapy—in which a radioactive cylinder is inserted into the vagina—is as effective at preventing the recurrence of higher-risk endometrial cancer as external-beam radiation therapy, has fewer side effects, and results in...
More »CLAYTON, Australia -- A small number of special cells that resemble mesenchymal stem cells, bearing the possible application for major anatomic repairs, have been found in human endometrium, investigators here have found.
More »Carcinoma of the endometrium is the most common female pelvic malignancy and the fourth most
common cancer in females, after breast, bowel, and lung carcinomas. In 1995, an estimated 32,800
new cases of endometrial carcinoma and 5,900 related deaths will occur in the United States [1].
The...
More »SAN DIEGO -- Adjuvant chemoradiation may benefit some women with advanced endometrial cancer, researchers said here.
More »WASHINGTON -- Black women with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer had significantly worse overall survival than white women who received the same therapy in four clinical trials.
More »Kirby et al are correct in their
statement that continued controversy
surrounds the comprehensive
surgical staging of all patients
with clinical stage I endometrial
adenocarcinoma. Such is the case because
lymph node metastasis is found
in only 10% of these patients. The
proportion of patients found...
More »Early presentation of endometrial cancer permits effective management
with excellent clinical outcome. The addition of hysteroscopy to
dilatation and curettage (D&C) in the evaluation of postmenopausal
bleeding adds little to the detection of malignancy. Imaging studies such
as computed tomography,...
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