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Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer complicated by endometrial extension results in poor prognosis
March 16th, 2006
Cervical cancer complicated by endometrial extension results in poor prognosis. "The authors wished to determine whether pretreatment pathologic evidence of endometrial invasion correlated with fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) findings and outcomes in patients with carcinoma of the uterine cervix," according to a recent article in the journal Cancer. A.J. Hope and colleagues wrote, "Pretreatment whole body FDG-PET was performed in 58 patients with cervical carcinoma who also under-went pathologic evaluation of the endometrium by biopsy or dilation and curettage. FDG-PET lymph node status, disease free...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-03-16)
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