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NCCN Guidelines for Endometrial Carcinoma and Uterine Neoplasms Study Guide

This guide provides an overview of endometrial cancer treatment, covering surgical staging, adjuvant therapies, and systemic treatments like immunotherapy and targeted therapies. It also discusses management of recurrent disease and the importance of molecular profiling in treatment decisions.

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Management of Endometrial Carcinoma and Uterine Sarcoma

NCCN Guidelines for Uterine Neoplasms

Clinical practice guidelines for the management of endometrial carcinoma and uterine sarcoma including molecular analysis, surgical staging, and systemic therapy.

  • Endometrial carcinoma
  • Surgical staging
  • Molecular analysis
  • Fertility-sparing options
  • Ovarian preservation
  • Systemic therapy
  • Biomarker-directed therapy
  • Immunotherapy-related toxicities
  • Serous carcinoma
  • Clear cell carcinoma
  • Carcinosarcoma
  • Low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma
  • Adenosarcoma
  • Hormonal therapy
  • Radiation therapy
  • MSI-H/dMMR testing
  • TMB-H testing
  • HER2 testing
  • POLE mutations

NCCN Guidelines for Endometrial Carcinoma

Clinical guidelines for the evaluation, staging, and primary treatment of uterine neoplasms including endometrial carcinoma and uterine sarcoma.

  • endometrial carcinoma
  • preoperative evaluation
  • surgical staging
  • endometrioid histology
  • FIGO staging
  • adjuvant treatment
  • external beam radiation therapy
  • vaginal brachytherapy
  • systemic therapy
  • total hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy
  • lymphovascular space invasion
  • mismatch repair deficiency

Management of Endometrial Carcinoma

NCCN Guidelines for the management of endometrial carcinoma including surgical staging, adjuvant treatment, and fertility-sparing options.

  • Endometrial carcinoma
  • Surgical staging
  • Adjuvant treatment
  • Endometrioid histology
  • Fertility-sparing options
  • Ovarian preservation
  • Systemic therapy
  • Radiation therapy
  • FIGO staging
  • Lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI)

Endometrial Carcinoma Treatment and Management

NCCN Guidelines for the management of endometrial carcinoma including therapy for locoregional relapse, disseminated metastases, and surgical staging.

  • Locoregional relapse therapy
  • Disseminated metastases treatment
  • Surgical staging
  • Systemic therapy
  • Radiation therapy for uterine cancer
  • Serous carcinoma management
  • Clear cell carcinoma management
  • External beam radiation therapy (EBRT)
  • Vaginal brachytherapy
  • FIGO staging

Endometrial Carcinoma Pathology and Surgical Staging

Principles of pathologic assessment, molecular analysis, imaging, and surgical staging for endometrial carcinoma including sentinel lymph node mapping.

  • Pathologic assessment
  • Molecular subgroups
  • POLE-mutated
  • Microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H)
  • Mismatch repair deficient (dMMR)
  • No specific molecular profile (NSMP)
  • Immunohistochemical (IHC) staining
  • Sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping
  • Ultrastaging
  • Lymph node metastasis
  • Total hysterectomy + bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (TH/BSO)
  • Radical hysterectomy (RH)
  • Lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI)
  • Myometrial invasion
  • Pelvic MRI
  • Computed tomography (CT)
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET/CT

Endometrial Carcinoma and Uterine Sarcoma Management

Clinical guidelines for the surgical staging, systemic therapy, and hormonal treatment of endometrial carcinoma and uterine sarcoma.

  • Sentinel lymph node mapping algorithm
  • Surgical staging of endometrial cancer
  • Systemic therapy for advanced endometrial carcinoma
  • First-line therapy for recurrent disease
  • Biomarker-directed therapy
  • Hormonal therapy for recurrent or metastatic disease
  • Uterine sarcoma primary treatment
  • Management of high-grade endometrial carcinoma
  • Chemoradiation therapy
  • Immunotherapy regimens

Uterine Sarcoma Pathology and Molecular Analysis

Principles of pathologic assessment and molecular profiling for various uterine sarcoma subtypes including leiomyosarcoma, endometrial stromal sarcoma, and inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor.

  • Pathologic assessment
  • Molecular profiling in gynecologic mesenchymal malignancies
  • Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) histologic diagnosis
  • Epithelioid leiomyosarcoma
  • Myxoid leiomyosarcoma
  • Low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS)
  • High-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS)
  • Perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa)
  • Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT)
  • SMARCA4-deficient uterine sarcomas (SDUS)
  • NTRK-rearranged sarcoma
  • Genomic risk stratification
  • Immunohistochemical markers

Pathology, Imaging, and Systemic Therapy for Uterine Sarcoma

Pathology, Imaging, and Therapy for Endometrial Cancer

Principles of pathology, molecular analysis, imaging, and therapy for uterine sarcoma including histologic diagnosis and molecular findings.

  • Uterine Tumor Resembling Ovarian Sex Cord Tumor (UTROSCT)
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) subtypes
  • Molecular findings and gene fusions
  • Prognostic factors
  • Imaging workup and surveillance
  • First-line therapy for advanced or recurrent disease
  • Biomarker-directed therapy

Systemic Endocrine Therapy for Uterine Cancer

Hormonal therapies may be considered for patients with ER/PR-positive uterine cancer.

  • Systemic endocrine therapy
  • ER/PR-positive uterine cancer
  • Aromatase inhibitors
  • Anastrozole
  • Letrozole
  • Exemestane
  • Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogs
  • Fulvestrant
  • Megestrol acetate
  • Medroxyprogesterone acetate
  • Ovarian ablation or suppression

Staging and Management of Uterine Neoplasms

Radiation Therapy and Staging for Endometrial Cancer

Principles of radiation therapy for uterine neoplasms, gynecologic survivorship, and AJCC and FIGO staging systems for uterine carcinomas and sarcomas.

  • External beam radiotherapy
  • Brachytherapy
  • Interstitial brachytherapy
  • Intensity-modulated RT
  • Target volumes
  • AJCC Tumor-Node-Metastases staging
  • FIGO surgical staging
  • Uterine carcinomas
  • Leiomyosarcoma
  • Endometrial stromal sarcoma

Uterine Sarcoma Staging and Classification

This document details AJCC Tumor-Node-Metastases (TNM) and International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) surgical staging systems for uterine sarcomas.

  • AJCC Tumor-Node-Metastases (TNM) staging
  • FIGO surgical staging systems
  • Primary tumor assessment
  • Regional lymph node metastasis
  • Distant metastasis
  • Prognostic stage groups
  • Histologic grade

Surgical Staging in Endometrial Cancer

This document discusses SLN mapping, SLN ultrastaging, and minimally invasive procedures for the surgical staging of endometrial cancer.

  • SLN mapping
  • SLN ultrastaging
  • lymphadenectomy
  • micrometastasis
  • isolated tumor cells (ITCs)
  • minimally invasive procedures
  • laparoscopy
  • robotic surgery
  • laparotomy
  • lymph node metastasis
  • adjuvant therapy

Primary Treatment for Endometrial Cancer

NCCN Guidelines for uterine neoplasms delineate treatment categories for pure endometrioid cancer including surgical staging, fertility-sparing progestin-based therapy, and adjuvant options.

  • endometrioid cancer categories
  • surgical staging
  • total hysterectomy
  • bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy
  • sentinel lymph node mapping
  • fertility-sparing therapy
  • progestin-based therapy
  • ovarian preservation
  • adjuvant therapy
  • lymphadenectomy

Endometrial Cancer Treatment and Management

Management strategies for endometrial cancer including surgical staging, adjuvant radiation therapy, and systemic therapy regimens for uterine-confined and advanced-stage disease.

  • surgical staging
  • adjuvant radiation therapy
  • vaginal brachytherapy
  • external beam radiation therapy (EBRT)
  • systemic therapy
  • carboplatin/paclitaxel
  • immunotherapy
  • pembrolizumab
  • dostarlimab
  • durvalumab
  • trastuzumab
  • endometrioid histologies
  • uterine serous carcinoma
  • carcinosarcoma
  • dMMR status
  • pMMR status
  • HER2-positive uterine serous carcinoma

Endometrial Cancer and Uterine Neoplasms Treatment

Endometrial Cancer and Uterine Neoplasms Treatment

This document provides a comprehensive list of clinical references regarding systemic therapy, hormonal treatment, and molecular genetic changes in endometrial cancer and uterine sarcomas.

  • advanced or recurrent endometrial carcinoma
  • hormonal therapy
  • systemic therapy
  • carboplatin and paclitaxel
  • mismatch repair deficiency
  • microsatellite instability-high
  • tumor mutational burden
  • uterine carcinosarcoma
  • endometrial stromal sarcoma
  • JAZF1 and JJAZ1 gene fusion
  • NTRK gene fusion-positive solid tumors
  • RET fusion-positive solid tumors

Management of Endometrial Cancer and Uterine Neoplasms

Systemic Therapy and Management of Endometrial Cancer

This document outlines systemic therapy options, biomarker-directed therapies, radiotherapy principles, and post-treatment surveillance for endometrial cancer and uterine neoplasms.

  • combination chemotherapy regimens
  • single-agent therapy options
  • biomarker-directed therapies
  • MSI-H/dMMR endometrial cancer
  • TMB-H testing
  • checkpoint inhibitor combination
  • NTRK gene fusion-positive endometrial tumors
  • RET-mutant advanced solid tumors
  • HER2-positive uterine serous carcinoma
  • carcinosarcoma treatment
  • tumor-directed radiotherapy
  • vaginal brachytherapy
  • post-treatment surveillance protocol
  • fertility-sparing treatment

Uterine Neoplasms and Sarcoma Management

Clinical guidelines for the diagnosis, molecular analysis, staging, and treatment of uterine neoplasms including endometrial cancer and various uterine sarcomas.

  • Endometrial adenocarcinoma
  • Hormone therapy for hypoestrogenism
  • Estrogen-receptor modulators (SERMs)
  • Endometrioid stromal sarcoma (ESS)
  • Low-grade and high-grade ESS
  • SMARCA4-deficient uterine sarcomas (SDUSs)
  • Uterine Leiomyosarcoma (uLMS)
  • PEComa
  • Uterine Tumor Resembling Ovarian Sex Cord Tumor (UTROSCT)
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS)
  • Molecular analysis and genetic signatures
  • Immunohistochemistry (IHC) markers
  • FIGO/AJCC staging systems
  • Bilateral Salpingo-Oophorectomy (BSO)
  • External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)

Treatment and Surveillance of Uterine Sarcomas

Clinical recommendations for the management, systemic therapy, and post-treatment surveillance of uterine neoplasms including endometrial stromal sarcoma and leiomyosarcoma.

  • Adjuvant radiotherapy
  • Systemic endocrine therapy for low-grade ESS
  • High-grade uterine sarcoma treatment algorithms
  • Postoperative pelvic radiotherapy for uterine leiomyosarcoma
  • Adjuvant systemic therapy for stage II and III
  • Treatment of recurrent or metastatic uterine sarcoma
  • First-line systemic therapy for high-grade uterine sarcoma
  • Biomarker-directed therapies for ALK, NTRK, and RET fusions
  • Post-treatment surveillance protocols
  • Management of drug reactions and long-term treatment complications

Management and Treatment of Endometrial Cancer

Endometrial Cancer Clinical Management and Research

Clinicians assess the late and long-term effects of gynecologic cancers through patient history, physical examination, imaging, and laboratory testing.

  • endometrial cancer
  • gynecologic cancers
  • myometrial invasion
  • lymphovascular space invasion
  • lymph node metastasis
  • POLE mutations
  • uterine carcinosarcomas
  • HER2 testing
  • mismatch repair immunohistochemistry
  • DNA MLH1 methylation testing
  • sentinel lymph node mapping
  • surgical staging
  • FIGO staging

Advanced and Recurrent Endometrial Cancer Treatments

Clinical studies and guidelines regarding the treatment of advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer, uterine serous carcinomas, and mismatch repair deficient primary advanced endometrial cancer.

  • Advanced endometrial cancer
  • Recurrent endometrial cancer
  • Uterine serous carcinomas
  • Mismatch repair deficient endometrial cancer
  • Durvalumab
  • Carboplatin
  • Paclitaxel
  • Trastuzumab
  • Bevacizumab
  • Sandwich therapy
  • Concurrent chemoradiation

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