Wertheim hysterectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy for carcinoma of the uterine corpus

Alford, Charles D.; Betson, Johnnie R.; Santi, Nicholas Di

doi:10.1016/s0002-9378(16)36041-0

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“…In this group, whose average age is over 60 and who commonly have diabetes, hypertension and obesity, the Wertheim hysterectomy carries an increased hazard. The mortality figures of others are: Alford, Betson and DiSanti, 8 Stage III carcinomas of the corpus are defined as those lesions outside the uterus, involving adjacent organs, but not outside the true pelvis. This stage includes the 10 per cent of cases in which the tumor has metastasized to the ovary or the tube or, less frequently, cases in which there is a vaginal wall or suburethral metastasis.…”

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Carcinoma of the Corpus Uteri

1965

Postgraduate Medicine

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Carcinoma of the Corpus Uteri

1965

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Risk/benefit ratios in the management of gynecologic cancer

Morris¹

1981

Cancer

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While earlier diagnosis and better treatment have produced improved results in gynecologic cancer, diagnostic techniques and therapeutic regimens should be evaluated not just by tumor remissions or five-year cures but also by whether simpler methods might be equally effective, at lower cost, with less disability, with a shorter hospital stay, and with less disturbance to the patient and her family. The objectives of treatment should be to achieve the maximum in tumor cure with the lowest level of complications. Because of deaths from injuries related to overtreatment, less invasive and less toxic therapy may at times prove more effective than more radical treatment.Cancer 48:642-649, 1981.

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