What pelvic fields do you treat for patients with FIGO IA2-IB cervical cancer patients who inadvertently get a simple hysterectomy but with lymph node sampling (for presumed endometrial carcinoma)?
In the setting of a negative lymph node sampling, would you treat a full pelvis or mini-pelvis to compensate for lack of the appropriate surgery? Is a vaginal cuff boost mandated?
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Radiation Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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This situation used to be referred to as a "cut-through" hysterectomy (even though the surgeon did not cut through tumor).
The devil is in the details for something like this. How thorough was the dissection? How deep the invasion? However, some generalizations can be made. The upper 1/2 of the vagi...
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