Are patients and physicians willing to accept less-radical procedures for cervical cancer? | Zendy

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Are patients and physicians willing to accept less-radical procedures for cervical cancer?

Author(s) -

Kemal Güngördük,

Roman Kocián,

Derman Başaran,

Taner Turan,

İsa Aykut Özdemir,

David Cibula

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of gynecologic oncology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.358

H-Index - 37

eISSN - 2005-0399

pISSN - 2005-0380

DOI - 10.3802/jgo.2018.29.e50

Subject(s) - medicine , trachelectomy , cervical cancer , radical surgery , radical hysterectomy , dissection (medical) , adverse effect , lymph node , stage (stratigraphy) , cancer , disease , hysterectomy , general surgery , surgery , paleontology , biology

Patients, even if they suffered from morbidity related to previous CC treatment, do not want to choose between oncological safety and a better quality of life. Physicians tend to accept the higher oncological risk associated with less-radical surgical procedures, but attitudes differ regionally. Professionals should be aware of this tendency when counselling the patients before less-radical surgery.

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