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How do positive pelvic washings influence your decision to administer adjuvant therapy to early stage endometrial cancer who otherwise meets no criteria for adjuvant therapy?

<60y/o, grade 1 endometrioid endometrial cancer. TLH, BSO, sentinel nodes. Stage IA, focal LVSI, 20% myometrial invasion, negative sentinel nodes, positive pelvic washings.
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Do you routinely collect pelvic washings for clinical stage I endometrial cancer?

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Gynecologic Oncology · Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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<60y/o, grade 1 endometrioid endometrial cancer. TLH, BSO, sentinel nodes. Stage IA, focal LVSI, 20% myometrial invasion, negative sentinel nodes, positive pelvic washings.

Positive pelvic washings are an adverse prognostic sign in patients with other high-risk features. This patient has low risk...

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Gynecologic Oncology · Covenant Health
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Long-debated issue. Patients with positive washings and other high-risk factors do have a worse prognosis. Patients with no other risk factors, as presented here, may have no clear-cut diminution of survival, but I would tend to treat, given our inability to “salvage” as in “save” those with recurre...

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