Late recurrence in endometrial carcinoma

This report describes a patient with a recurrence of endometrial carcinoma 26.5 years after diagnosis, a much longer interval to recurrence than previously reported. She presented at age 47 years with an International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) grade 2, Stage IA adenoacanthoma an...

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Published in:Cancer 1987-02, Vol.59 (4), p.825-828
Main Authors: Lederman, Gilbert S., Niloff, Jonathan M., Redline, Raymond, Rosen, Eliot M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adenocarcinoma - pathology
Adenocarcinoma - radiotherapy
Adenocarcinoma - surgery
Aged
Biological and medical sciences
Female
Female genital diseases
Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics
Humans
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - pathology
Time Factors
Tumors
Uterine Neoplasms - pathology
Uterine Neoplasms - radiotherapy
Uterine Neoplasms - surgery
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Summary:This report describes a patient with a recurrence of endometrial carcinoma 26.5 years after diagnosis, a much longer interval to recurrence than previously reported. She presented at age 47 years with an International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) grade 2, Stage IA adenoacanthoma and was treated with an intracavitary radium implant followed by radical hysterectomy. Pathologic examination showed the tumor to be confined to the corpus with only superficial myometrial invasion. She subsequently developed an isolated lower vaginal recurrence histologically identical to the original tumor. The patient was retreated with radiation therapy, and is currently alive and free of disease. This report emphasizes the possibility of late recurrence of endometrial carcinoma even with favorable prognostic features (Stage I, superficial invasion, younger than age 50 years, adenoacanthoma, preoperative irradiation). Cancer 59:825‐828, 1987.
ISSN:0008-543X
1097-0142
DOI:10.1002/1097-0142(19870215)59:4<825::AID-CNCR2820590428>3.0.CO;2-9