Role of minimally invasive surgery in gynecologic cancers. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The role of minimally invasive surgery in the management of gynecologic cancers continues to expand. Radical vaginal trachelectomy with laparoscopic pelvic lymphadenectomy has emerged as a safe, reasonable option for women with early-stage cervical cancer desiring fertility preservation. Similarly, laparoscopically assisted radical vaginal hysterectomy has been systematically described, is feasible, and can be offered to women with early-stage cervical cancer who do not desire future childbearing. In the treatment of early-stage endometrial cancer, the surgical approach of laparoscopic hysterectomy, peritoneal washings, and pelvic and para-aortic lymph node dissection, with or without an omentectomy, is being compared with the same surgery performed via laparotomy in the cooperative Gynecologic Oncology Group LAP 2 study, which has completed accrual, and appears to be a reasonable surgical option. In ovarian cancer, minimally invasive surgery has been incorporated to manage early-stage, advanced-stage, and recurrent disease, as well as second-look procedures. Hand-assisted laparoscopy has also recently been described in managing larger volume primary and recurrent gynecologic cancers. Extraperitoneal laparoscopy for para-aortic and pelvic lymph node dissections has been shown to yield adequate nodal counts and to be safe and feasible in the management of gynecologic cancers.

publication date

  • September 1, 2006

Research

keywords

  • Genital Neoplasms, Female
  • Gynecologic Surgical Procedures
  • Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 33748565652

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1634/theoncologist.11-8-895

PubMed ID

  • 16951393

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 11

issue

  • 8