Surgical Staging Advanced Cervical Cancer

In this episode of the IJGC podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Pedro Ramirez is joined by Dr. Dimitrios Nasioudis. Dr. Nasioudis is a Gynecologic Oncology Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. His current research focuses on translational therapeutics and population-based research. Highlights: The utility of surgical staging for patients with locally advanced cervical cancer has not been established. While PET-CT is the most sensitive imaging modality to detect para-aortic metastases, the false negative rate can be as high as 20%. In the United States, surgical staging for locally advanced cervical cancer is rarely performed with a decreasing utilization.

The impact of surgical staging on the oncologic outcomes is not clear.