IMR Press / EJGO / Volume 37 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.12892/ejgo2717.2016

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Original Research
Outcomes of fertility and pregnancy in patients with early-stage cervical cancer after undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy
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1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China
Eur. J. Gynaecol. Oncol. 2016, 37(1), 109–112; https://doi.org/10.12892/ejgo2717.2016
Published: 10 February 2016
Abstract

Objective: To explore the outcomes of oncology, fertility, and pregnancy in patients after undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) followed by fertility-sparing operations with cervical cancer, and its value in clinical treatment. Materials and Methods: A total of 11 patients from seven hospitals in Beijing with cervical cancer since August 2009 to December 2011, who had undergone fertilitysparing treatments were recruited in this study. Results: Among the 11 patients, there were nine cases of squamous cell carcinoma, two cases of adenocarcinoma, one case in Stage IA2, and ten cases in Stage IB1 (FIGO, 2009). All of the 11 patients were treated with NACT of one to two cycles before the operations, and then they underwent radical trachelectomy (RT) + retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy. Eleven patients had completed the follow-up (100%) and the mean follow-up was 24.4 months. The outcomes of the oncology and pregnancy are as follows: no patient recurred after fertility-sparing treatments; in seven patients seeking pregnancy after the treatments, three pregnancies occurred in two women. Conclusions: NACT+RT, as a fertility-sparing treatment for young women with bulky early-stage cervical cancer and its outcomes in fertility and pregnancy are satisfactory, however its safety needs to be studied further.
Keywords
Early-stage cervical cancer
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Fertility-sparing
Pregnancy
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