IMR Press / CEOG / Volume 50 / Issue 12 / DOI: 10.31083/j.ceog5012270
Open Access Original Research
Prognostic Role of Lymphadenectomy among Women with Low Grade Lymphovascular Space Invasion-Positive Clinically Uterus Confined Endometrioid Endometrial Cancer
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1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayıs University, 55280 Samsun, Turkey
2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ankara State Hospital Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Health Sciences, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
3 Department of Public Hospitals service, Samsun Provincial Health Directorate, 55070 Samsun, Turkey
*Correspondence: ibrahimyalcin73@gmail.com (Ibrahim Yalcin)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2023, 50(12), 270; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ceog5012270
Submitted: 6 July 2023 | Revised: 1 September 2023 | Accepted: 20 September 2023 | Published: 26 December 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Diagnosis and Treatment of Endometrial Cancer)
Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Background: Possible therapeutic benefits of lymphadenectomy (LND) in the treatment of endometrial cancer (EC) remain controversial. The present study was undertaken with the aim of investigating the prognostic role of LND in women with clinically confirmed, low-grade, uterus-confined endometrioid EC exhibiting lymphovascular space invasion. Methods: A bicentric retrospective review was conducted for the identification of cases of EC, treated at two gynecologic oncology departments in Turkey. Subsequently, the data of 1811 patients with EC (non-endometrioid, endometrioid, or mixed histology) who had undergone surgery between 2007 and 2016 were analyzed. After extracting data, 37 patients were defined as the study group, and those 37 cases were matched to 74 control patients who had undergone surgery with systematic LND to compare survival. Kaplan-Meier analysis was applied in the process of interpreting data on survival, and variables predicting patient outcomes were identified using Cox proportional hazards regression. Results: Five-year disease-free survival (DFS) rates were 88.2% versus 81.5% (p = 0.985), while overall survival (OS) rates were 91.0% versus 85.7% (p = 0.814) for the study and control groups, respectively. Advanced ages (hazard ratio (HR): 6.69; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.59–28.09, p = 0.009) and tumors of grade 2 (HR: 3.35; 95% CI: 1.09–10.26, p = 0.034) were found to be independently predictive of decreased OS within the entire cohort. Conclusions: Systematic LND does not have a therapeutic role in the management of low-grade, uterus-confined endometrioid EC with lymphovascular space invasion. There was no difference between the survival outcomes of the two groups considered in this study.

Keywords
endometrial cancer
lymphovascular space invasion
lymphadenectomy
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