2023
Monitoring Treatment Response, Early Recurrence, and Survival in Uterine Serous Carcinoma and Carcinosarcoma Patients Using Personalized Circulating Tumor DNA Biomarkers
Bellone S, McNamara B, Mutlu L, Demirkiran C, Hartwich T, Harold J, Yang-Hartwich Y, Siegel E, Santin A. Monitoring Treatment Response, Early Recurrence, and Survival in Uterine Serous Carcinoma and Carcinosarcoma Patients Using Personalized Circulating Tumor DNA Biomarkers. International Journal Of Molecular Sciences 2023, 24: 8873. PMID: 37240216, PMCID: PMC10219151, DOI: 10.3390/ijms24108873.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsUterine serous carcinomaCS patientsEarly recurrenceDroplet digital polymerase chain reactionCA 125Serous carcinomaCtDNA testingTime of surgeryTime of recurrenceReliable tumor biomarkersTumour DNA biomarkersCarcinosarcoma patientsUSC patientsRecurrent diseaseOccult diseaseOverall survivalEndometrial cancerAggressive variantInitial treatmentRecurrent tumorsResidual tumorClinical findingsTreatment courseTreatment trialsPIK3CA mutations
1994
Follow-up after Primary Therapy: Management of the Symptomatic Patient—Surgery
Pecorelli S, Sartori E, Santin A. Follow-up after Primary Therapy: Management of the Symptomatic Patient—Surgery. Gynecologic Oncology 1994, 55: s138-s142. PMID: 7835798, DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1994.1353.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSecondary surgeryStage IIICCisplatin chemotherapyStage INegative second-look surgeryMacroscopic residual tumorNegative second lookSecond-line chemotherapyEvidence of diseaseResidual tumor volumeSecond-look surgeryImportant prognostic parameterBowel obstructionPelvic recurrencePrimary surgeryPrimary therapyMost patientsPalliative roleResidual tumorPatients surgeryPrognostic parametersDefinitive procedureDegree of differentiationVisible tumorTumor volume