Survival of women with early stage cervical cancer in the UK treated with minimal access and open surgery.
Authors
Martin-Hirsch, PWood, N
Whitham, N
Macdonald, R
Kirwan, J
Anagnostopoulos, A
Hutson, R
Theophilou, G
Otify, M
Smith, Michael
Myriokefalitaki, Eva
Quinland, Wayne
Mahon-Daly, F
Clayton, R
Nagar, H
Harley, I
Dobbs, S
Ratnavelu, N
Kucukmetin, A
Fisher, A
Tailor, A
Butler-Manuel, S
Madhuri, K
Edmondson, R
Affiliation
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Unit, UKIssue Date
2019
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The recent publication of two papers and an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has caused consternation in the gynaecological oncology community (4, 5). Both papers demonstrate a worse outcome for patients undergoing radical hysterectomy by the minimal access route compared to open surgery and thus question the dominant paradigm of the last decade that minimal access surgery is the preferred method by which to carry out radical surgery for cervical cancer. These studies raise many questions but the two most pressing are, firstly, have our patients been disadvantaged by our adoption of minimal access surgery and, secondly, how do we proceed as a gynaecological oncology community in the face of these data? This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Citation
Martin-Hirsch P, Wood N, Whitham NL, Macdonald R, Kirwan J, Anagnostopoulos A, et al. Survival of women with early stage cervical cancer in the UK treated with minimal access and open surgery. BJOG. 2019 Jan 18.Journal
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecologyDOI
10.1111/1471-0528.15617PubMed ID
30658010Additional Links
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.15617Type
ArticleLanguage
enae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1111/1471-0528.15617