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Would you treat endometrioid adenocarcinoma arising from an endometriosis lesion in a patient with prior hyst/BSO like an ovarian or endometrial primary?

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Gynecologic Oncology · Baylor College of Medicine/Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center

For a patient with prior hyst/BSO and now an endometriosis-associated endometrioid adenocarcinoma, I would start by getting next-generation sequencing and MSI/MMR testing of the tissue specimen that was used to make the diagnosis. This would allow for additional information and the potential use of ...

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Gynecologic Oncology · Legacy Health System

In general, endometrioid adenocarcinomas arising in endometriosis after hysterectomy/BSO are classified as peritoneal carcinomas and are treated like ovarian cancer. Tumor molecular studies may add critical information in directing primary therapy.

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Numerous epidemiologic studies have demon...

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Radiation Oncology · Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

I've seen a few cases where patients with a history of prior TAH for non-oncologic reasons 2+ years earlier developed endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the vaginal cuff, +/- nodal regional disease.

We treat definitively similar to how we would approach vaginal recurrence of endometrial cancer assuming...

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