The evolution of modern treatment of corpus cancer

• Published in: Cancer Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 603 - 609
• Main Author: Gusberg, S. B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.07.1976
• Subjects: Female; Humans; Hysterectomy; Lymph Node Excision; Radiotherapy - methods; Uterine Neoplasms - mortality; Uterine Neoplasms - pathology; Uterine Neoplasms - therapy

The treatment of endometrial cancer has been surgical, traditionally, with preoperative radiation gaining favor in the past three decades. This surgical treatment has been confined to simple hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo‐oophorectomy in most clinics because of the pattern of spread of corpus c...