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Would you recommend adjuvant chemotherapy for a patient with serous endometrial cancer initially treated with neoadjuvant radiation due to cervical involvement precluding surgical resection who is now s/p hysterectomy/BSO/LND/omentectomy with only small amount of residual disease confined to the endometrium?

Pelvic washings at time of post-RT surgery were also negative.
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Gynecologic Oncology · Baylor College of Medicine/Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Yes, assuming adequate performance status and no contraindications, I would recommend adjuvant postoperative chemotherapy for any patient requiring neoadjuvant treatment with uterine serous carcinoma that has any residual disease found at the time of hysterectomy.

For the patient in this case, she in...

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Gynecologic Oncology · BayCare Medical Group
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Definitely.

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