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. 2024 Mar 4;18(1):107.
doi: 10.1007/s11701-024-01863-4.

Comparison of surgical and oncological outcomes between different surgical approaches for overweight or obese cervical cancer patients

Wanli Chen  1 , Rong Wang  1 , Jialin Wu  1 , Yingyu Wu  1 , Lin Xiao  2
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Comparison of surgical and oncological outcomes between different surgical approaches for overweight or obese cervical cancer patients

Wanli Chen et al. J Robot Surg. .

Abstract

The purpose was to investigate the safety and advantages of different surgical approaches applied to overweight or obese cervical cancer patients by comparing their surgical and oncological outcomes. This is a retrospective cohort study. 382 patients with a body mass index of at least 24.0 kg/m2 and stage IB-IIA (The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, FIGO 2009) cervical cancer were enrolled, and then were divided into three groups: open radical hysterectomy (ORH) group, laparoscopic radical hysterectomy (LRH) group, and robot-assisted radical hysterectomy (RRH) group according to the surgical approach. IBM SPSS version 25.0 was used to analyze data. There were 51 patients in ORH group, 225 patients in LRH group and 106 patients in RRH group. In the comparison of surgical outcomes, compared to LRH and ORH, RRH had the shortest operating time, the least estimated blood loss, the shortest postoperative hospital stay, and the shortest recovery time for bowel function (P < 0.05). In the comparison of postoperative complications, ORH has the highest rate of postoperative infection and wound complication compared to LRH and RRH (P < 0.05), and RRH has the highest proportion of urinary retention. After a median follow-up time of 61 months, there was no statistically significant difference between the three groups in terms of 5-year overall survival (OS) rate and 5-year recurrence-free survival (RFS) rate, (P = 0.262, P = 0.453). In patients with overweight or obese cervical cancer, the long-term outcomes of the three surgical approaches were comparable, with RRH showing significant advantages over ORH and LRH in terms of surgical outcomes.

Keywords: Cervical cancer; Complications; Obesity; Outcomes; Radical total hysterectomy.

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The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.

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Survival curves based on surgical approach (n = 359). OS overall survival
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Survival curves based on surgical approach (n = 359). RFS recurrence-free survival
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