Background: Ultrasonography’s usefulness in endometrial cancer (EC) diagnosis consists its roles staging and prediction of metastasis. Ultrasound-measured tumor-free distance from the tumor to uterine serosa (uTFD) is a promising marker for these diagnostic prognostic variables. The aim study was determine this biomarker locoregional staging, thus lymph node metastasis (LNM). Methods: We conduc...

BackgroundStudies on the value of a staging laparoscopy in detecting metastases gastric cancer patients show great variation. This study investigates avoidable surgery rate with and without scheduled for curative intent.MethodsThis population-based cohort included all an intentional resection potentially curable adenocarcinoma, between 2011 2016, registered Dutch Upper GI Cancer audit. Patients...

Nonmelanoma skin cancer of the head and neck is an ever-increasing public health problem. The most common histologic types are squamous and basal cell carcinomas. The majority of these tumors can be managed with local excision with a high probability of tumor control and cure. A subset of these tumors, however, is aggressive, as defined by deep invasion, neurotropic extension, and regional lymp...

BACKGROUND To investigate the risk factors and prognosis for locoregional recurrence (LRR) after breast conserving treatment (BCT) in women with early breast cancer. METHODS Women who had undergone BCT from 1998 to 2005 at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital were retrospectively reviewed. LRR was defined as the reappearance of invasive carcinoma in the treated breast and/or ipsilateral axillary lymp...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated patterns of treatment failure (especially locoregional failure; LRF) after radical esophagectomy and proposes a clinical target volume (CTV) for postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) among patients with thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). METHODS All patients who were followed up in our center after radical esophagectomy between 2007 and 2011 were re...

BACKGROUND Locoregional recurrence remains the challenge for long-term survival of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients after radical surgery, and curative-intent radiotherapy could be a treatment choice. This study aimed to assess the survival and prognostic factors of patients with postoperative locoregionally recurrent NSCLC treated with radical radiotherapy. METHODS We reviewed med...

PURPOSE To prospectively study the value of PET-CT with fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) to predict neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) response of locoregional disease of stages II and III breast cancer patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS A written informed consent and approval were obtained from the Ethics Committee. PET-CT accuracy in the prediction of pathologic complete response (pCR) after NA...

In patients (pts) with resected pulmonary carcinoids, recurrence of disease may occur up to 10 years after surgery, but the exact incidence remains unknown. Locoregional lymph node (LN) involvement predicts poor prognosis. We evaluated recurrence-free interval (RFI) patterns in relation extent surgical LN sampling. By combining Netherlands pathology and cancer registries, all pts surgically dia...

Initial work up of a mast cell tumor (MCT)will involve diagnosis by FNA and staging. The initial staging performed will depend on the index of suspicion that the mass is a grade II or III MCT and clinician’s preference. Cytology is generally diagnostic for MCT. However, an incisional biopsy to determine grade is recommended in some cases. The histological grade may be important to determine in ...