title: The new International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics surgical staging and survival rates in early endometrial carcinoma.
abstract: The medical records of patients with clinical Stage I endometrial adenocarcinoma who were treated at the Maimonides Medical Center between October 1979 and October 1987 were reviewed. There was sufficient surgical-pathologic information to allow a reclassification based on the new International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) surgical staging in 93 patients. These are the subjects of analysis. Twenty-one patients (23%) were found surgically to have more than Stage I disease. The 5-year survival rate for the whole group (N = 93) was 90%. However, it was significantly better for patients with surgical Stage I disease (98%) than for patients with surgical Stage III disease (60%) (P less than 0.001). There was no significant statistical difference in survival among patients with different substages within surgical Stage I (i.e., IA, 100%; IB, 100%; and IC, 88%), whereas the distribution of adjuvant therapy among these substages was not statistically different (P = 0.17). Thus, survival was not significantly affected by depth of myometrial invasion in patients who had negative peritoneal washing and no involvement of lymph nodes or the peritoneal cavity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Maimonides Medical Center, State University of New York, Brooklyn.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gal
authors.forename: F O
authors.initials: FO
authors.lastname: Recio
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zamurovic
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006176:Gynecology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging / Q000379:methods*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D015996:Survival Rate