Response to: Commentary on “Surgical skill and oncological outcome of laparoscopic radical hysterectomy: JGOG1081S-A1, an ancillary analysis of the Japanese Gynecologic Oncology Group Study JGOG1081” by Ramirez et al

• Published in: International Journal of Gynecologic Cancer Vol. 33; no. 6; p. 1012
• Main Authors: Kobayashi, Eiji, Takekuma, Munetaka, Enomoto, Takayuki, Okamoto, Aikou
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 01.06.2023; Elsevier Inc; BMJ; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Cervical Cancer; Clinical Competence; Effectiveness; Feasibility studies; Female; Humans; Hysterectomy; Hysterectomy - standards; Laparoscopes; Laparoscopy; Laparoscopy - standards; Letter; Neoplasm Staging; Oncology; Retrospective Studies; Surgeons; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - pathology; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - surgery; Japan; Laparoscopes; Cervical Cancer
• ISSN: 1048-891X; 1525-1438; 1525-1438
• DOI: 10.1136/ijgc-2023-004492

[...]we are currently conducting just such a study, the JACC JGOG1087 trial (UMIN000045224), based on the results of the JGOG1081S-A1 study. In the JGOG1081S-A1 study, our blinded evaluation of surgical procedures, using unedited videos of recurrent cases and carefully matched control cases, was crucial to establishing guidelines for the surgical procedures to be used in a planned prospective study. A retrospective assessment of the safety and efficacy of laparoscopic radical hysterectomy in Japan during the early years following its introduction: a Japanese Gynecologic Oncology Group study (JGOG1081S).