BACKGROUND Locally advanced and recurrent rectal cancers frequently cause pelvic morbidity including pain, bleeding and mass effect. Palliative pelvic radiotherapy is used to relieve these symptoms and delay local progression. There is no established optimal radiotherapy regimen and clinical practices vary. Our aim was to review the efficacy and toxicity of palliative pelvic radiotherapy of sym...

In the report, we describe the first case of laparoscopic ovarian transposition prior to pelvic radio-chemo therapy in a young female patient with advanced rectal cancer in Japan. A 14-year-old female visited a hospital because of consistent diarrhea and melena. Colonoscopy examination showed a bulky tumor of the rectum, which was diagnosed as moderately to poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma....

Pelvic recurrences after irradiated and surgically treated cervical cancer are frequent situations which require an aggressive surgical approach in order to provide a benefit in terms of survival. Most often in these situations pelvic exenterations are needed to obtain a curative resection with negative resection margins. We present the case of a 68 year old patient who was successfully submitt...

Introduction: In the current study we evaluated the incremental value of lateral pelvic lymphoscintigraphy imaging of endometrial or cervical cancer patients who underwent sentinel node mapping. Methods: Operable endometrial and cervical cancer patients without clinical or paraclinical evidence of lymph node involvement were included in the study. The day before surgery the patients were sent ...

•PMMR is a compartment based radical hysterectomy in endometrial cancer.•Pelvic PMMR may be combined with ICG guided Targeted Compartmental Lymphadenectomy (TCL).•Video of Pelvic PMMR and TCL technique may be basis for a prospective study.

Extended pelvic side wall excision is a useful technique for treatment of recurrent or advanced rectal cancer involving sciatic notch and does not compromise the dissection of major pelvic vessels and vascular control.

BACKGROUND Whether the current recommendations for ovarian cancer prevention and screening (annual history and physical examination) are effective has not been evaluated. We examined the relation between health care use and the risk of ovarian cancer. METHODS Using a case-control study design, we recorded the frequency of medical visits and pelvic examinations and the type of health care prov...

HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the role of hypoxic pelvic perfusion in providing therapeutic options for palliation without relevant complications in a homogeneous group of patients with unresectable locally recurrent rectal cancer who are nonresponders or have disease progression after the standard treatments. DESIGN Nonrandomized and noncontrolled phase II experimental study. SETTING University h...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the distinctions in survival and toxicity between patients with cervical cancer with common iliac node or para-aortic node involvement, who were treated with extended-field intensity-modulated radiotherapy (EF-IMRT) and patients with or without lower involved pelvic nodes, who were treated with pelvic IMRT. A total of 55 patients treated with EF-IMRT...