Erschienen in:
01.11.2016 | Letter to the Editor
Correspondence on the article: “Patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy + radical surgery + adjuvant chemotherapy in locally advanced cervical cancer: long-term outcomes, survival and prognostic factors in a single-center 10-year follow-up”
verfasst von:
Nasir Ali, Ahmed Nadeem Abbasi, Muhammad Atif Mansha
Erschienen in:
Medical Oncology
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Ausgabe 11/2016
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Our team has gone through this article authored by Luvero et al. [
1]. Certainly, 10-year follow-up of 90 cervical cancer patients is an impressive long-term follow-up. In this study, authors reported a negative correlation for involved nodes and outcome and also mentioned that site of involved nodes is not related to survival. Our team is inclined to disagree with this statement. In one study by Kidd et al. [
2], it was reported that on PET/CT imaging the more distant level of nodal involvement was associated with poor survival. In another study by Paumier et al. [
3], three-year survival was 58 and 24 % in patients without and with paraaortic lymph node involvement, respectively. These patients were staged by PET/CT. …