Efficacy of intra-abdominal cytoreductive surgery in advanced endometrial cancer with distant metastasis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The efficacy of intra-abdominal cytoreductive surgery in patients with endometrial cancer and distant metastasis is equivocal. We investigated the effectiveness of such surgical treatment and whether it should be performed before or after chemotherapy (CT).

Methods

This study included patients with an International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics stage IVB endometrial cancer who received initial treatment at our hospital between January 2006 and December 2017.

Results

We retrospectively reviewed 67 patients with stage IVB endometrial cancer with distant metastases and classified them into preceding surgery (PS, n=23), chemotherapy followed by a surgery (CS, n=27), and CT (n=17) groups. We examined the achievement of resection with [R (1)] or without

SUBMITTER: Kanno M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10627751 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature