The outcome of patients with stage I endometrial cancer involving the lower uterine segment

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1079-1083

  Lavie, O ^a   Uriev, L ^b   Gdalevich, M ^c   Barak, F ^b   Peer, G ^a   Auslender, R ^a   Anteby, E ^b   Gemer, O ^b  

^a CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BARZILAI MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c District Health Office   (Israel)

Author keywords

Endometrial carcinoma; Lower uterine segment; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51749108871     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2007.01150.x     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Grigsby PW, Perez CA, Kuten A et al. Clinical stage I endometrial cancer: prognostic factors for local control and distant metastasis: implications of the new FIGO surgical staging system. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1992 22 : 905 11.
2. Irwin C, Levin W, Fyles A, Pintile M, Manchul L, Kirkbride P. The role of adjuvant radiotherapy in carcinoma of the endometrium-results in 550 patients with pathologic stage I disease. Gynecol Oncol 1998 70 : 247 54.
3. Zaino RJ, Kurman RJ, Diana KL, Morrow CP. Pathologic models to predict outcome for women with endometrial adenocarcinoma: the importance of the distinction between surgical stage and clinical stage - a Gynecologic Oncology Group study. Cancer 1996 77 : 1115 21.
4. DiSaia PJ, Creasman WT, Boronow RC, Blessing JA. Risk factors and recurrent patterns in stage I endometrial cancer. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1985 151 : 1009 15.
5. Mayr NA, Wen BC, Benda JA et al. Postoperative radiation therapy in clinical stage I endometrial cancer: corpus, cervical and low uterine segment involvement - patterns of failure. Radiology 1995 196 : 323 8.
6. Phelan C, Montag AG, Rotmensch J, Waggoner SE, Yamada SD, Mundt AJ. Outcome and management of pathological stage I endometrial carcinoma patients with involvement of the lower uterine segment. Gynecol Oncol 2001 83 : 513 7.
7. Gemer O, Uriev L, Harkovsky T, Ronit P, Ben-Dor D, Segal S. Significance of lower uterine involvement in women with stage I endometrial adenocarcinoma. J Reprod Med 2004 49 : 703 6.
8. Anderson JM, Stea B, Hallum AV, Rogoff E, Childers J. High-dose-rate postoperative vaginal cuff irradiation alone for stage IB and IC endometrial cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2000 46 : 417 25.
9. Hachisuga T, Kaku T, Enjoji M. Carcinoma of the lower uterine segment. Clinicopathologic analysis of 12 cases. Int J Gynecol Pathol 1989 8 : 26 35.