Forty years' evolution in the management of patients with endometrial carcinoma.
Of 218 patients with early endometrial cancer treated with planned pre-hysterectomy intracavitary irradiation, 105 were operated 6 weeks after the completion of radiation therapy in the traditional fashion. A group of 113 patients, similar as to stage and differentiation of their disease, were operated on within 48 hours of the removal of the radiation sources. More than 90% of both groups were cured, indicating the lack of benefit from the traditional delayed hysterectomy sequence.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy; D011379:Prognosis; D013997:Time Factors; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*