Effect of reduced follow-up care on patient satisfaction with care among patients with endometrial cancer: The ENSURE randomized controlled trial.

Background: Evidence on the optimal follow-up schedule after endometrial cancer is lacking. The study aim was to compare satisfaction with care between women who received reduced follow-up care and women who received usual guideline-directed follow-up care for three years after surgery.

Methods: The ENSURE (ENdometrial cancer SURvivors' follow-up carE) trial was a non-inferiority randomized controlled multicenter trial in 42 hospitals in the Netherlands.

Adjuvant Use of PlasmaJet Device During Cytoreductive Surgery for Advanced-Stage Ovarian Cancer: Results of the PlaComOv-study, a Randomized Controlled Trial in The Netherlands.

Objective: Standard surgical treatment of advanced-stage ovarian carcinoma with electrosurgery cannot always result in complete cytoreductive surgery (CRS), especially when many small metastases are found on the mesentery and intestinal surface. We investigated whether adjuvant use of a neutral argon plasma device can help increase the complete cytoreduction rate.

Patients And Methods: 327 patients with FIGO stage IIIB-IV epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) who underwent primary or interval CRS were randomized to either surgery with neutral argon plasma (PlasmaJet) (intervention) or without PlasmaJet (control group).

Loss of skeletal muscle density during neoadjuvant chemotherapy in older women with advanced stage ovarian cancer is associated with postoperative complications.

Objective: To assess the association between loss of lumbar skeletal muscle mass and density during neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) and postoperative complications after interval cytoreductive surgery (CRS) in older patients with ovarian cancer.

Materials And Methods: This multicenter, retrospective cohort study included patients aged 70 years and older with primary advanced stage ovarian cancer (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics stage III-IV), treated with NACT and interval CRS. Skeletal muscle mass and density were retrospectively assessed using Skeletal Muscle Index (SMI) and Muscle Attenuation (MA) on routinely made Computed Tomography scans before and after NACT.

Low preoperative skeletal muscle density is predictive for negative postoperative outcomes in older women with ovarian cancer.

Objective: To determine the predictive value of lumbar skeletal muscle mass and density for postoperative outcomes in older women with advanced stage ovarian cancer.

Methods: A multicenter, retrospective cohort study was performed in women ≥ 70 years old receiving surgery for primary, advanced stage ovarian cancer. Skeletal muscle mass and density were assessed in axial CT slices on level L3.

Outcome of surgery in advanced ovarian cancer varies between geographical regions; opportunities for improvement in The Netherlands.

Introduction: The care for patients with epithelial ovarian cancer(EOC) is organised in eight different geographical regions in the Netherlands. This situation allows us to study differences in practice patterns and outcomes between geographical regions for patients with FIGO stage IIIC and IV.

Methods: We identified all EOC patients who were diagnosed with FIGO stage IIIC or IV between 01.