Background: Cervical cancer is the fourth most common among women worldwide. In Tanzania, it leading malignancy in with 58% of deaths reported annually. Radical hysterectomy recommended treatment for early stage cervical cancer, but this option only became available at Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) 2014. The purpose study to provide insight into efficacy gynecologic oncology surgery BMC.

Background: The marriage age has been increasing recently throughout the world and researches have shown an increased rate of gynecological cancers among young women. Therefore, fertility sparing in these patients is an important point and many works have been done on conservative management in young women with gynecological cancer. Materials and Methods: In this study, we report our experience...

BACKGROUND Hysterectomy is a very common gynaecological procedure which has a significant place in optimizing the reproductive health outcomes of women. OBJECTIVES To document the indications, the type of hysterectomy commonly performed, the difficulties encountered and complications of the procedure at the Central Hospital, Benin City. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a retrospective review ...

Robotic surgeries for cervical cancer have several advantages compared with laparotomic or laparoscopic surgeries. Robotic single-site surgery has many advantages compared with the multiport approach, but its safety and feasibility are not established in radical oncologic surgeries. We report a case of a Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage IB1 cervical carcinoma whose radical h...

Radical trachelectomy (RT) can be performed vaginally or abdominally (laparotomic, laparoscopic or robotic). The aim of this systematic review was to compare all techniques in terms of surgical complications, disease recurrence and subsequent fertility/pregnancy outcomes. A total of 1293 RTs were analyzed (FIGO-stage: IA1-IIA). The most frequent surgical complications do not differ from the one...

Cervical cancer is a malignant neoplasm arising from cells originating in the cervix uteri. It is routinely screened by Papanicolaou’s (Pap) smear and human papilloma virus (HPV) is considered as one of its etiological agents. Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in reproductive age and its diagnosis is increasing in young age as a result of effective and widespread screening progra...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy and toxicity of the combination of paclitaxel plus carboplatin as neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) for locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) prior to radical hysterectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy. METHODS We reviewed patients with cervical cancer of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage IB2-IIB who underwent neoadjuvant chem...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE In less than 2 decades, laparoscopy has contributed to modification in the management of early cervical cancer patients, and all comparisons between open and laparoscopic-based radical operations showed an identical oncological outcome. The aim of this study is to describe surgical instrumentations and technique to perform total microlaparoscopy radical hysterectomy in ...