Sexual function and disease progression in women with advanced cancer.

Purpose: To prospectively evaluate sexual function, body image, quality of life, and disease progression rates in women with advanced cancer.

Methods: Sixty women staged III-IV breast, gynaecological, or colorectal cancer completed the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), the Body Image Scale, the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTQL), and the Beck Depression Inventory. Forty-three women (71.

Survival after Laparoscopic versus Abdominal Radical Hysterectomy in Early Cervical Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Previous studies have reported the safety of laparoscopic radical hysterectomy for treatment of early cervical cancer, as option to laparotomy. This study aims to compare overall survival between laparoscopic versus abdominal radical hysterectomy for early cervical cancer.

Methods: A single-center randomized controlled trial enrolled 30 patients with clinically staged IA2 cervical cancer and lymphovascular invasion, IB and IIA, who underwent laparoscopic radical hysterectomy (16) or abdominal radical hysterectomy (14).

Costs analysis of surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence in a brazilian public hospital, comparing burch and synthetic sling techniques.

Introduction: Surgical treatment of urinary incontinence progressed significantly with the introduction of synthetic slings. However, in some public Brazilian hospitals, the costs of these materials prevent their routine use.

Objective: To compare the costs of ambulatory synthetic sling surgery with an historical series of patients submitted to Burch surgery in a Brazilian public hospital.

Low COST surgery setting for one-operational port laparoscopic hysterectomy surgery with ordinary laparoscopic instruments: preliminary results.

Background: Hysterectomy dates back to 120BC and is the second most commonly performed gynecological surgery in the world. Cosmetic demands and the necessity of rapid return to work have contributed to the minimally invasive laparoscopic approach for hysterectomy. The majority of reports describe the use of three or four incisions to perform the surgery (two or three for manipulation and one for optics).

Postoperative pain and perioperative outcomes after laparoscopic radical hysterectomy and abdominal radical hysterectomy in patients with early cervical cancer: a randomised controlled trial.

Background: Non-randomised studies have suggested that the postoperative complications of (Campos LS, Limberger LF, Stein AT, Kalil AN) laparoscopic radical hysterectomy are similar to those in abdominal radical hysterectomy. However, no study evaluating postoperative pain comparing both techniques has been published thus far. Our objective was to compare pain intensity and other perioperative outcomes between laparoscopic radical hysterectomy (LRH) and abdominal radical hysterectomy (ARH) in early cervical cancer.

Videolaparoscopic radical hysterectomy approach: a ten-year experience.

Background: Because of the advancements in surgical techniques and laparoscopic instruments, total laparoscopic radical hysterectomy can now be performed for the treatment of uterine cervical carcinoma. We assessed the feasibility, complications, and survival rates of patients who underwent total laparoscopic radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymphadenectomy.

Methods: We retrospectively collected data from the medical charts of 29 patients who had undergone surgery between 1998 and 2008.