Use of clinical variables for preoperative prediction of lymph node metastasis in endometrial cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynaecological cancer, and most patients are identified during early disease stages. Noninvasive evaluation of lymph node metastasis likely will improve the quality of clinical treatment, for example, by omitting unnecessary lymphadenectomy.

Methods

The study population comprised 611 patients with endometrial cancer who underwent lymphadenectomy at four types of institutions, comprising seven hospitals in total. We systematically assessed the association of 18 preoperative clinical variables with postoperative lymph node metastasis. We then constructed statistical models for preoperative lymph node metastasis prediction and assessed their performance with a previously proposed system, in which the score was determined by counti

SUBMITTER: Ueno Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10773201 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature