Publications by authors named "Shigeky Kusamura"
Article Synopsis
- The study evaluates 20 years of experience with fertility-sparing surgery in early-stage cervical cancer patients and compares their oncological outcomes to those who underwent radical hysterectomy.
- It involved 109 patients, with some opting out of fertility-sparing due to cancer-related factors, and showed that 34 attempted to conceive post-surgery.
- After a median follow-up of about 39 months, the survival rates were similar across both groups, suggesting that fertility-sparing surgery does not compromise cancer outcomes.
Background: Lymphadenectomy is important in the surgical treatment of apparent early epithelial ovarian cancers (eEOC); however, its extent is not well defined. We evaluated the role of systematic lymphadenectomy, the risk factors related with lymph node metastases, the implications, and the morbidity of comprehensive surgical staging.
Methods: We prospectively recruited 124 patients diagnosed with apparent eEOC [International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage I and II] between January 2003 and January 2011.