Comparing oncological outcomes of robotic versus open surgery in the treatment of endometrial cancer.

Purpose: Robotic surgery has been incorporated in the treatment of endometrial cancer, with evidence suggesting that minimal access surgery offers advantages over laparotomy including less blood loss, lower rate of perioperative complications, and accelerated postoperative recovery. The laparoscopic approach to cervical cancer (LACC) study has recently demonstrated inferior survival outcomes in cervical cancer patients treated with minimal access surgery including robotic surgery. It is, therefore, imperative that further evaluation of the latter in endometrial cancer is performed.

En Bloc Resection of Sentinel Lymph Nodes with the Hysterectomy Specimen in Endometrial Cancer.

Objective: We demonstrate the surgical technique of removing the sentinel lymph nodes with its afferent lymphatic vessels attached to the hysterectomy specimen.

Design: Stepwise demonstration of the technique with narrated video footage.

Setting: Sentinel lymph node sampling has been established as an acceptable staging method in endometrial cancer cases.

Conservative surgical approaches for small volume FIGO stage IB1 cervical cancer. Updated survival and obstetric outcomes of an expanded cohort.

Objective: Standard surgical treatment of FIGO stage 1B1 cervical cancer is open radical surgery. However, there is increasing evidence that for small tumours a more conservative approach can minimise fertility consequences without impacting on long term oncologic outcomes. The objective of our study is to present survival and obstetric outcomes following extended follow-up for patients who underwent conservative management of small-volume stage 1B1 disease.

En-block cytoreduction for advanced ovarian cancer.

The standard treatment of advanced ovarian, fallopian tube and peritoneal cancer is cytoreductive surgery followed by platinum-based chemotherapy (du Bois et al., 2005). This type of cancer expands through the peritoneum, which is the thin and continuous epithelial layer covering the abdominopelvic cavity and abdominal organs.