Use of the Sentinel Node Biopsy for Early Endometrial Cancer. (SNE)

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cancer of Endometrium

Treatments: Procedure: Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02545348

StLucGsendo1

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is an obstervationnal study, to evaluate the good clinical practice of the use of the sentinel node biospy in early stage endometrial cancer. The collaborating centres with the OncoGynecology board of the King Albert II Institute of the Clinique Universitaire Saint-Luc will also particpate to the trial.

Sentinel node biospy is not yet validated for endometrial cancer, even if lots of leading team in the world published very good result and that the first prospectives trials are already published with also excellents results. The investigators decided then to include this practice in their institutional guideslines and also to registred the procedure.

Full description

All the sentinel node biopsy procedures for endometrial cancer will be record online via the REDCap tools, securized on a servor in Saint-Luc. Automatic email for the following of the patients and the post operative event will be send regularly for every patient to the physicians who include the patient. Efficacy of the technique, False negative and postive rate, modifications of the adjuvant treatement, long terme evolution and complication wil be evaluate.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Endometrial cancer early stage on the pre operative examinations
• Performance status that allow a surgery
• Surgery by laparoscopy or laparotomy

Exclusion criteria

• Patient already operated of the hysterectomy who need lymphatic restadification
• Stage IV disease