Publications by authors named "Hilary L Turnbull"
Article Synopsis
- - The study evaluated the learning curve of gynecological oncologists performing upper abdominal surgeries for advanced ovarian cancer, dividing 126 patients into three groups based on surgery dates from 2012 to 2018.
- - As the study progressed, there was an increase in surgeries performed on patients, such as cholecystectomy and liver capsulectomy, with group 3 showing the highest rates of complex procedures and complete cytoreduction (64.3%).
- - The involvement of liver surgeons decreased over the time frame of the study, indicating improved surgical competency among gynecological oncologists without a rise in serious complications.
Background/aim: To assess the perioperative outcomes of cholecystectomy in cytoreductive procedures for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC).
Patients And Methods: Prospectively collected perioperative data of patients that underwent cytoreduction for advanced EOC, between 2014 and 2018, were analysed. Patients were divided in two groups on the basis of whether cholecystectomy was performed.
Objective: The aim of this study is to estimate the percentage of patients with metastatic ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal cancer requiring ultra-radical surgery to achieve cytoreduction to less than 1 cm (optimal) or no macroscopic residual disease (complete).
Methods: Perioperative data were collected prospectively on consecutive patients undergoing elective cytoreductive surgery for metastatic epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, a tertiary referral cancer centre in the United Kingdom from November 2012 to June 2016.
Results: Over a 42-month period, 135 consecutive patients underwent cytoreductive surgery for stage IIIC and IV ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer.
Purpose: This aim of this study is to determine the risk of endometrial cancer in symptomatic postmenopausal women, when endometrial thickness on transvaginal ultrasonography is equal to or greater than 10 mm, and subsequent office-based endometrial sampling histology is negative.
Methods: This is a prospective cross-sectional study, performed in a gynaecological oncology centre in the United Kingdom between February 2008 and July 2012. All postmenopausal women presenting with vaginal bleeding were investigated using transvaginal ultrasonography.