Systemic Treatment of Advanced Endometrial Carcinoma
Drug Dose Response rate (%) Cisplatin 50–100 mg/m2 every 3 weekly 18–27 Doxorubicin 50–60 mg/m2 every 3 weekly 22–32 Paclitaxel 175–250 mg/m2 every 3 weekly 36 In order to improve…
Hormone Therapy in Normal Postmenopausal Women and After Treatment for Endometrial Cancer
Estrogen-only HT increases the risk in women with uterus Continuous combined HT reduces the risk Cyclic combined HT neither offers protection nor does it increase risk Cyclic Sequential HT use…
Endometrial Cancers in Young Women: Conservative Management and Fertility Preserving Options
History of current breast cancer Liver disease (i.e., severe cirrhosis) or liver tumors (hepatocellular adenoma or hepatoma) Use of medications (i.e., phenytoin, carbamazepine, barbiturates, primidone, topiramate, oxcarbazepine, or rifampicin) Counseling…
Synchronous Cancers of the Ovary and Endometrium
© Springer India 2015Shalini Rajaram, Chitrathara K and Amita Maheshwari (eds.)Uterine Cancer10.1007/978-81-322-1892-0_37 37. Synchronous Cancers of the Ovary and Endometrium P. Rema1 (1) Department of Surgical Oncology, Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum, India P. Rema Email: premarcc@yahoo.co.in…
Management of Incompletely Staged Endometrial Cancer
Fig. 36.1 Management of incompletely staged endometrial carcinoma (Adapted from the NCCN guidelines [4]) Women with incompletely staged clear-cell or papillary serous carcinomas of the endometrium should undergo restaging with…
Surveillance of Uterine Sarcomas
© Springer India 2015Shalini Rajaram, Chitrathara K and Amita Maheshwari (eds.)Uterine Cancer10.1007/978-81-322-1892-0_34 34. Surveillance of Uterine Sarcomas Neha Kumar1 and Shalini Rajaram2 (1) Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India (2) Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,…
Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Para-aortic Lymphadenectomy in Endometrial Cancer: Rationale and Surgical Technique
Fig. 19.1 Algorithm for para-aortic lymphadenectomy in patients with endometrial cancer [15] Rationale for Use in Endometrial Cancer The extent to which the para-aortic nodes should be removed remains under…
Role of Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery in Endometrial Cancer: The Inevitable Evolution
Category Laparotomy Laparoscopy Operating room time (min) 113 168 Number of para-aortic LN obtained 6.75 7.58 Number of pelvic LN obtained 19.5 19.6 Estimated blood loss (ml) 305 131 Blood…
Role of Radiation Therapy in Uterine Sarcoma
© Springer India 2015Shalini Rajaram, Chitrathara K and Amita Maheshwari (eds.)Uterine Cancer10.1007/978-81-322-1892-0_32 32. Role of Radiation Therapy in Uterine Sarcoma Reena Engineer1 (1) Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial centre, Mumbai, India Reena Engineer Email: reena_engineer@rediffmail.com…
Ovarian Preservation in Endometrial Carcinoma
Fig. 17.1 Midline incision. Dissected ovary with the pedicle is shown. Ovarian pedicle is dissected up to just beyond the pelvic brim. 1. Ovary. 2. Ovarian pedicle. 3. Appendix. 4….
