Prognostic factors in stage IA-IIA cervical cancer patients treated surgically: Does the waiting time to the operation affect survival?

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 285, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 493-497

  Umezu, Tomokazu ^a   Shibata, Kiyosumi ^a   Kajiyama, Hiroaki ^a   Yamamoto, Eiko ^a   Mizuno, Mika ^a   Kikkawa, Fumitaka ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Operation; Prognostic factor; Waiting time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CODING; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; SURGICAL WAITING TIME; TIME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862523892     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-011-1966-y     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Landoni F, Maneo A, Colombo A, Placa F, Milani R, Perego P, Favini G, Ferri L, Mangioni C (1997) Randomised study of radical surgery versus radiotherapy for stage Ib-IIa cervical cancer. Lancet 350:535-540
2. Kirwan JM, Tincello DG, Herod JJ, Frost O, Kingston RE (2002) Effect of delays in primary care referral on survival of women with epithelial ovarian cancer: retrospective audit. BMJ 324:148-151
3. Crawford SC, Davis JA, Siddiqui NA, de Caestecker L, Gillis CR, Hole D, Penney G (2002) The waiting time paradox: population based retrospective study of treatment delay and survival of women with endometrial cancer in Scotland. BMJ 325:196
4. Position Statement, 2005. Canadian Society for Surgical Oncology. Available at http://www.cos.ca/csso. Accessed 30 June 2007
5. Welcome to the Department of Health. Cancer waiting targets: a Guide, 2005. Department of Health, National Health Service. Available at http://www.dh.gov.uk. Accessed 30 June 2007
6. Christensen ED, Harvald T, Jendresen M, Aggestrup S, Petterson G (1997) The impact of delayed diagnosis of lung cancer on the stage at the time of operation. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 12:880-884
7. Richards MA, Smith P, Ramirez AJ, Fentiman IS, Rubens RD (1999) The influence on survival of delay in the presentation and treatment of symptomatic breast cancer. Br J Cancer 79:858-864
8. Porta M, Gallen M, Malats N, Planas J (1991) Influence of "diagnostic delay" upon cancer survival: an analysis of five tumour sites. J Epidemiol Community Health 45:225-230
9. Sainsbury R, Johnston C, Haward B (1999) Effect on survival of delays in referral of patients with breast-cancer symptoms: a retrospective analysis. Lancet l 353:1132-1135
10. Raptis DA, Fessas C, Belasyse-Smith P, Kurzawinski TR. Clinical presentation and waiting time targets do not affect prognosis in patients with pancreatic cancer. Surgeon 8:239-246
11. Stec AA, Coons BJ, Chang SS, Cookson MS, Herrell SD, Smith JA Jr, Clark PE (2008) Waiting time from initial urological consultation to nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma-does it affect survival? J Urol 179:2152-2157
12. Viswanathan AN, Deavers MT, Jhingran A, Ramirez PT, Levenback C, Eifel PJ (2004) Small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix: outcome and patterns of recurrence. Gynecol Oncol 93:27-33
13. Crowder S, Tuller E (2007) Small cell carcinoma of the female genital tract. Semin Oncol 34:57-63
14. Chan JK, Loizzi V, Burger RA, Rutgers J, Monk BJ (2003) Prognostic factors in neuroendocrine small cell cervical carcinoma: a multivariate analysis. Cancer 97:568-574