Do you offer vaginal cuff brachy alone, vaginal cuff brachy and chemo, or WPRT for surgically staged IB grade 3 endometrial cancer?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Gynecologic Cancers • Endometrial Cancer

Does the GOG 249 abstract guide you one way or the other?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

All patients who have stage IBG3 fall into the GOG249 eligibility criteria. However, it is important to recognize that patients within this group have broadly varying risks. First of all, serous cancers (which have a greater propensity to spread intraperitoneally and may demand variant-specific appr...

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Radiation Oncologist at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
I completely agree with @Patricia J. Eifel. The tr...

Radiation Oncologist at Harold C Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center/UT Southwestern
Generally I offer pelvic RT, particularly if unsta...

Answer from: at Academic Institution

Not always; it depends on other factors including LVSI, and greater depth of invasion (75 to 90 %).

Answer from: at Academic Institution

Cuff brachytherapy is what we offer if appropriately surgically staged (and that includes SLN if you have expertise with it).

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