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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)?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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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