Prognostic discrimination of subgrouping node-positive endometrioid uterine cancer: location vs nodal extent.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The 2009 International Federation of Gynecologists and Obstetricians elected to substage patients with positive retroperitoneal lymph nodes as IIIC 1 (pelvic lymph node metastasis only) and IIIC 2 (paraaortic node metastasis with or with positive pelvic lymph nodes). We have investigated the discriminatory ability of subgrouping patients with retroperitoneal nodal involvement based on location, number, and ratio of positive nodes.

Methods

For 1075 patients with stage IIIC endometrioid corpus cancer abstracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results databases for 2003-2007, Kaplan-Meier analyses, Cox proportional hazard models, and other quantitative measures were used to compare the prognostic discrimination for disease-specific survival (DSS) of noda

SUBMITTER: Kapp DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3208487 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature