Peritoneal cytology and invasive carcinoma of the cervix

Peritoneal cytology as prognostic factor in cervical cancer

“…The sites of recurrence were vagina (12), pelvis (6), peritoneum (2), brain (2), and residual ovary (2). Among PC positive patients three pelvic relapses and one vaginal recurrence were found.…”

“…[1][2][3] Cervical cancer staging is still based on clinical examination, in contrast with ovarian and endometrial cancers, which are staged surgically. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic role of PC in cervical cancer patients who underwent radical hysterectomy. [4][5][6] On the other hand, several are the prognostic factors considered important in cervical cancer, 7 but peritoneal washing is not considered a prognostic factor.…”

Impact of positive peritoneal cytology on prognosis in patients with cervical cancer: A meta-analysis

“…A total of 22 potentially relevant papers were found by focusing on abnormal peritoneal cytology and prognosis, particularly recurrence or lymph node metastasis (Creasman and Rutledge, 1971;Keettel et al, 1974;Hughes et al, 1980;Abu-Ghazaleh et al, 1984;Kilgore et al, 1984;Ziselman et al, 1984;Willett, 1985;Roberts et al, 1986;Imachi et al, 1987;Delgado et al, 1989;Zuna et al, 1990;Ito and Noda, 1992;Morris et al, 1992;Patsner, 1992;Trelford et al, 1995;Zuna and Behrens, 1996;Kashimura et al, 1997;Takeshima et al, 1997;Estape et al, 1998;Kasamatsu et al, 2009;Kuji et al, 2014). Among these 22 papers, 16 were excluded: seven papers were incomplete studies providing no exact recurrence data (Abu-Ghazaleh et al, 1984;Kilgore et al, 1984;Zuna et al, 1990;Morris et al, 1992;Patsner, 1992;Trelford et al, 1995;Estape et al, 1998), one paper was a letter to the editor , and another five studies lacked relevance to prognosis and cervical cancer (Creasman and Rutledge, 1971;Hughes et al, 1980;Ziselman et al, 1984;Willett, 1985;Zuna and Behrens, 1996); three studies included patients who underwent surgical treatment at advanced stages (Keettel et al, 1974;Roberts et al, 1986;Imachi et al, 1987). The remaining six studies reported on abnormal p...…”

The Relationship between Positive Peritoneal Cytology and the Prognosis of Patients with Uterine Cervical Cancer

“…Therefore, the incidence of positive peritoneal cytology was found to be higher in the advanced stage [7,9], lymph node metastasis [2,10,11], and invaded uterine body in the previous reports.…”

“…In our multivariate analysis, lymph node metastasis was found to be the only independent prognostic factor. The incidence of positive peritoneal cytology in uterine cervical cancer is very low [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] and a large sample size is needed to analyze this type of study. Previous reports had a similarly small sample size, and different results were obtained.…”