Intravaginal brachytherapy alone for intermediate-risk endometrial cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 111-117

  Alektiar, Kaled M ^a   Venkatraman, Ennapadam ^a   Chi, Dennis S ^a   Barakat, Richard R ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; GOG 99; Intermediate risk; Intravaginal brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DISEASES; GYNECOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; SURGERY; TOXICITY; TUMORS;

COMPREHENSIVE SURGICAL STAGING (CSS); ENDOMETRIAL CANCER; INTRAVAGINAL BRACHYTHERAPY (IVRT); LYMPHOVASCULAR INVASION (LVI);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOMETRIUM; ORGANIZATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 17844363951     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.09.054     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. C.L. Creutzberg, W.L. van Putten, P.C. Koper Post Operative Radiation Therapy in Endometrial Carcinoma (PORTEC) Study Group Surgery and postoperative radiotherapy versus surgery alone for patients with stage-1 endometrial carcinoma Multicentre randomized trial Lancet 355 2000 1404 1411
2. H.M. Keys, J.A. Roberts, V.L. Brunetto A phase III trial of surgery with or without adjunctive external pelvic radiation therapy in intermediate risk endometrial adenocarcinoma A Gynecologic Oncology Group study Gynecol Oncol 92 2004 744 751
3. C.L. Creutzberg, W.L. van Putten, P.C. Koper Postoperative Radiation Therapy in Endometrial Carcinoma Group The morbidity of treatment for patients with Stage I endometrial cancer Results from a randomized trial Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 51 2001 1246 1255
4. J.M. Straughn Jr, W.K. Huh, F.J. Kelly Conservative management of stage I endometrial carcinoma after surgical staging Gynecol Oncol 84 2002 194 200
5. J.M. Straughn, W.K. Huh, J.W. Orr Jr Stage IC adenocarcinoma of the endometrium Survival comparisons of surgically staged patients with and without adjuvant radiation therapy Gynecol Oncol 89 2003 295 300
6. D.S. Mohan, M.A. Samuels, M.A. Selim Long-term outcomes of therapeutic pelvic lymphadenectomy for stage I endometrial adenocarcinoma Gynecol Oncol 70 1998 165 171
7. J.W. Orr Jr, J.L. Holimon, P.F. Orr Stage I corpus cancer Is teletherapy necessary? Am J Obstet Gynecol 176 1997 777 789
8. N.S. Horowitz, W.A. Peters III, M.R. Smith Adjuvant high dose rate vaginal brachytherapy as treatment of stage I and II endometrial carcinoma Obstet Gynecol 99 2002 235 240
9. A. Mariani, M.J. Webb, G.L. Keeney Low-risk corpus cancer Is lymphadenectomy or radiotherapy necessary? Am J Obstet Gynecol 182 2000 1506 1519
10. E.L. Kaplan, P. Meier Nonparametric estimation from incomplete observations J Am Stat Assoc 53 1958 457 481
11. N. Mantel Evaluation of survival data and two new rank order statistics arising in its consideration Cancer Chemother Rep 50 1966 163 170
12. D.R. Cox Regression models and life-tables J R Stat Soc B 34 1972 187 220
13. M.L. Berman Adjuvant radiotherapy following properly staged endometrial cancer What role? Gynecol Oncol 92 2004 737 739
14. D.G. Petereit, S.P. Tannehill, E.A. Grosen Outpatient vaginal cuff brachytherapy for endometrial cancer Int J Gynecol Cancer 9 1999 456 462
15. J.M. Anderson, B. Stea, A.V. Hallum High-dose-rate postoperative vaginal cuff irradiation alone for stage IB and IC endometrial cancer Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 46 2000 417 425
16. C. MacLeod, A. Fowler, P. Duval High-dose-rate brachytherapy alone post-hysterectomy for endometrial cancer Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 42 1998 1033 1039
17. J. Aalders, V. Abeler, P. Kolstad Postoperative external irradiation and prognostic parameters in stage I endometrial carcinoma Obstet Gynecol 56 1980 419 426
18. V.M. Abeler, K.E. Kjorstad Endometrial adenocarcinoma in Norway A study of a total population Cancer 67 1991 3093 3103
19. M. Chadha, P.J. Nanavati, P. Liu Patterns of failure in endometrial carcinoma stage IB grade 3 and IC patients treated with postoperative vaginal vault brachytherapy Gynecol Oncol 75 1999 103 107
20. C. Irwin, W. Levin, A. Fyles The role of adjuvant radiotherapy in carcinoma of the endometrium--Results in 550 patients with pathologic stage I disease Gynecol Oncol 70 1998 247 254
21. M.S. Carey, G.J. O'Connell, C.R. Johanson Good outcome associated with a standardized treatment protocol using selective postoperative radiation in patients with clinical stage I adenocarcinoma of the endometrium Gynecol Oncol 57 1995 138 144
22. D. Nori, O. Merimsky, M. Batata Postoperative high-dose-rate intravaginal brachytherapy combined with external irradiation for early stage endometrial cancer A long-term follow-up Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 30 1994 831 837
23. P.W. Grigsby, C.A. Perez, A. Kuten Clinical stage I endometrial cancer Prognostic factors for local control and distant metastasis and implications of the new FIGO surgical staging system Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 22 1992 905 911
24. C.P. Morrow, B.N. Bundy, R.J. Kurman Relationship between surgical pathological risk factors and outcome in clinical stage I and II carcinoma of the endometrium Gynecologic Oncology Group study Gynecol Oncol 40 1991 55 65
25. F. Alexander-Sefre, N. Singh, A. Ayhan Clinical value of immunohistochemically detected lymphovascular invasion in endometrioid endometrial cancer Gynecol Oncol 92 2004 653 659
26. Y. Inoue, K. Obata, K. Abe The prognostic significance of vascular invasion by endometrial carcinoma Cancer 78 1996 1447 1451