PurposeAlthough the majority of recurrences occur within the first 3 years of hysterectomy for endometrioid carcinoma, we report herein a successful salvage vaginal brachytherapy in a patient with endometrioid uterine carcinoma which recurr…
ObjectiveThe objective of the study was to evaluate the prognosis of ovarian cancer arising in endometriosis.Study designWe retrospectively compared 42 cases of endometriosis-associated ovarian cancer (EAOC) with 184 cases of ovarian carcin…
Genetic aberrations, such as loss of heterozygosity (LOH) and mutations leading to functional inactivation of the PTEN tumor suppressor gene, located on chromosome 10q23.3, have been shown to be associated with approximately one third of ov…
During an 8-year period, 76 post-hysterectomy women with endometrial cancer were referred to our institution for evaluation or treatment, and had slides from the hysterectomy specimen sent for review at the request of the gynecologic oncolo…