Jubilee Brown, M.D., associate professor in M. D. Anderson’s Department of Gynecologic Oncology, presented the findings at the plenary session of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists’ 41st Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer. While early-stage endometrial cancer typically responds well to standard therapies, low survival rates for advanced or recurrent disease result from limited and ineffective chemotherapy and hormonal [...]
The research, presented in the plenary session of the Society of Surgical Oncology Annual Cancer Symposium, showed that stage I and II patients without spread to axillary lymph nodes or with 1-3 lymph nodes with metastasis who received surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy without radiation to the chestwall post-mastectomy had a low overall risk of locoregional recurrences (LRR). [...]