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How do you counsel patients regarding adjuvant therapy for stage IA uterine serous carcinoma confined to a polyp?

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Gynecologic Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Observation, if fully staged is acceptable. Consider that, in the case with no residual we recommend no chemo. So, if this patient had a hysteroscopic polypectomy and then hyst with no residual we would say no chemo but, the same patient, no polypectomy, we say chemo? Biologically, are the same.

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Gynecologic Oncology · Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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First, one needs to be sure that a full staging procedure was performed, including peritoneal biopsies, omentectomy, and either successful bilateral pelvic sentinel lymph node sampling or full pelvic and paraaortic lymphadenectomy to confirm that the patient truly has stage IA disease. Because of th...

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Radiation Oncology · Hôpital de Chicoutimi ciuss Saguenay lac st Jean au Québec Canada
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Dr. @Dr. First Last and Dr. @Dr. First Last - In 2025, the same patient, would you do something different? Would you measure POLE (if p53 is mutated)?

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