Impact of extraperitoneal lymphadenectomy on treatment and survival in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer

• Published in: Gynecologic oncology Vol. 110; no. 3; pp. S33 - S35
• Main Authors: Gil-Moreno, Antonio, Díaz-Feijoo, Berta, Pérez-Benavente, Asumpció, del Campo, José M, Xercavins, Jordi, Martínez-Palones, José M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.09.2008
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Cervical cancer; Extraperitoneal laparoscopy; Extraperitoneal lymph node dissection; Female; Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine; Humans; Lymph Node Excision - methods; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Staging; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Surgical staging; Treatment Outcome; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - pathology; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - surgery; Extraperitoneal lymph node dissection; Surgical staging; Cervical cancer; Extraperitoneal laparoscopy

Abstract During the last years, and coinciding with the beginning of the concomitant treatment with radio-chemotherapy, a better control of local cervical cancer has been reached, although failures in the systemic control of the illness have been more frequent. One of the main causes is not treating...