Secondary uterine carcinosarcoma after concurrent chemoradiotherapy for cervical cancer: Case reports.

Gynecol Oncol Rep

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan.

Published: August 2017

•Secondary uterine sarcomas occur in < 1% of patients treated with CCRT.•Secondary uterine sarcomas can occur > 5 years from CCRT.•The median survival period from the secondary tumor occurrence was only 4 months.•All our patients had heterologous carcinosarcoma of the uterine corpus.

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