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How would you manage an endometrial cancer with no (or minimal) myometrial invasion and only a very small focus of disease in a pelvic node?

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Radiation Oncology · Radiation Oncology And Cyberknife Treatment Ctr

Eventhough stage IIIC endometrial cancer is the most common sub-stage among locally advanced patients, patients with node positive disease have routinely been combined with other stages for clinical trial purposes (including high risk early stage disease, stage IV, and recurrent disease). This not o...

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Radiation Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Generally patients who have no invasion of the myometrium do not develop lymph node metastases (although we have seen rare exceptions); for patients who have inner half invasion, the risk is related to grade, the actual depth of invasion and other factors---small high-grade tumors without LVSI rarel...

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