Cancer has become more common for its progress and has less chance of treatment. The identification and prevention of cancer has been a bit difficult. Among all the types of cancers ureteral cancer is a new arising cancer which is mostly seen in women when compared to men and also in the patients with renal cancer, pelvic cancer and even in kidney failure patients. Most of the studies reported ...

AIM OF THE STUDY To present a case of a patient with cervical carcinoma in stage IIA who was diagnosed with pelvic bone sarcoma 28 years after radiotherapy. CASE PRESENTATION A 37-year-old woman with IIA cervix cancer was treated with external beam irradiation and brachytherapy. The patient had undergone conventionally fractionated external beam irradiation using the "box" technique, with the...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to compare the classical method and Sectioning and Extensively Examining the Fimbriated End Protocol (SEE-FIM) in detecting microscopic lesions in fallopian tubes with gynecological lesions. METHODS From a total of 1,118 cases, 582 with various parts of both fallopian tubes sampled in three-ring-shape sections and 536 sampled with the SEE-FIM protoco...

This study is a multi-center clinical study, which aimed to compare CA125, HE4, and risk of ovarian malignancy algorithm (ROMA) in predicting epithelial ovarian cancer of Korean women with a pelvic mass. Prospectively, serum from 90 Korean women with ovarian mass was obtained prior to surgery. For control group, serum from 79 normal populations without ovarian mass was also obtained. The HE4 an...

Introduction: In the current study we evaluated the incremental value of lateral pelvic lymphoscintigraphy imaging of endometrial or cervical cancer patients who underwent sentinel node mapping. Methods: Operable endometrial and cervical cancer patients without clinical or paraclinical evidence of lymph node involvement were included in the study. The day before surgery the patients were sent ...

BACKGROUND Pelvic exenteration is an extensive surgical procedure performed for locally advanced cancers in the pelvis. AIMS The twenty-year experience with this procedure at the Cancer Institute has been analyzed for morbidity, failure pattern and survival. SETTINGS AND DESIGN The case records of all the patients who had undergone pelvic exenteration between 1981 and 2000 at Cancer Institu...

For now 60 years pelvic exenteration is in the armamentarium of pelvic surgeons for the treatment of advanced pelvic malignancies. The biology of malignant tumors originating in the pelvis locoregional tumor progression and only late stage distant spread was the basis for the development of a radical surgical technique removing the tumor en-bloc with the adjacent pelvic organs. The original pro...