Completion hysterectomy after radiation therapy for bulky cervical cancer stages IB, IIA, and IIB: Complications and survival rates - 25/08/11
Abstract |
Objective |
The purpose of this study was to assess survival and morbidity when completion hysterectomy follows radiation for bulky cervical cancer.
Study design |
This was a retrospective observational descriptive review that assessed the survival and morbidity of patients with bulky cervical cancer that was treated with radiation followed by completion hysterectomy between 1993 and 2002. Chemotherapy, external beam radiation, and brachytherapy data were collected.
Results |
Fifty-five cases were reviewed. Fifty-three patients received brachytherapy. Twenty-nine patients underwent sensitizing chemotherapy. All patients had hysterectomies. There were 12 early postoperative complications (21.8%) and 10 late complications (19.6%). Eleven patients are dead of disease (21.6%); 3 patients are alive with disease (5.9%), and 37 patients are free of disease (72.5%). Four patients were lost to follow-up. Seven patients who are free of disease had residual cancer in the specimen at hysterectomy.
Conclusion |
Complications of combined therapy were comparable to radiation or radical hysterectomy alone. In cases in which an incomplete response to radiation and chemotherapy leaves potential residual carcinoma, adjuvant hysterectomy may be a reasonable treatment option.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Key words : Cervical cancer, Hysterectomy, Radiation, Chemotherapy
Plan
| Presented at the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Boca Raton, Florida, January 18-21, 2004. Reprint requests: Reprints will not be available from the authors. |
Vol 191 - N° 2
P. 654-658 - août 2004 Retour au numéro
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