Affiliation:
1. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan, Zhengzhou, China.
Abstract
To assist clinicians in formulating treatment strategies for endometrial cancer (EC), this retrospective study explores the relationship between tumor volume and clinical pathological features, as well as prognosis, in patients undergoing staging surgery. Preoperative pelvic MRI examinations were conducted on 234 histologically confirmed EC patients. The ITK-SNAP software was employed to manually delineate the region of interest in the MRI images and calculate the tumor volume (MRI-TV). The analysis focused on investigating the relationship between MRI-TV and the clinical pathological features and prognosis of EC patients. Larger MRI-TV was found to be associated with various adverse prognostic factors (G3, deep myometrial invasion, cervical stromal invasion, lymphovascular space invasion, lymph node metastasis, advanced international federation of gynecology and obstetrics staging, and receipt of adjuvant therapy). The receiver operating characteristic curve indicated that MRI-TV ≥ 8 cm3 predicted deep myometrial invasion, and MRI-TV ≥ 12 cm3 predicted lymph node metastasis. Penalized spline (P-spline) regression analysis identified 14 cm3 of MRI-TV as the optimal prognostic cutoff value. MRI-TV ≥ 14 cm3 was an independent prognostic factor for overall survival and disease-free survival. For patients with MRI-TV ≥ 14 cm3, the disease-free survival rate with adjuvant therapy was superior to that of the sole staging surgery group. This study demonstrates a significant correlation between MRI-TV and clinical pathological features and prognosis in EC. For patients with MRI-TV ≥ 14 cm3, staging surgery followed by adjuvant therapy was superior to sole staging surgery.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
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