ASSESSMENT OF TREATMENT RESPONSE RESPONSE AND THE ROLE OF COMPLETION SURGERY AFTER CONCURRENT CRTAND BRACHYTHERAPY FOR LOCALLY ADVANCED CERVICAL CANCER - A REVIEW FROM THE FRENCH CERVICAL CANCER GUIDELINES GROUP - 31/10/26
, Xavier Carcopino 3, the members from the FRENCH CERVICAL CANCER GUIDELINES GROUP †
Xavier Carcopino 4, ⁎, Lobna Ouldamer 5, Cyrille Huchon 6, Pauline Asseeva 7, Henri Azaïs 8, Sofiane Bendifallah 9, Jean-Luc Brun 10, Geoffroy Canlorbe 11, Cyrus Chargari 12, Pauline Chauvet 13, Abel Cordoba 14, Hélène Courcier 15, Yohann Dabi 16, Marion de Berti 5, Caroline Diguisto 5, Eva Fuss 17, Thomas Gaillard 18, Tristan Gauthier 19, Witold Gertych 20, Laurence Gladieff 21, Olivier Graesslin 22, Yohan Kerbage 23, Martin Koskas 15, Enora Laas 18, Aymeline Lacorre 19, Vincent Lavoué 24, Lise Lecointre 17, Fabrice Lecuru 25, François Margueritte 19, Alejandra Martinez 26, Paul-Jean Maternowski 10, Patrice Mathevet 27, 28, Imane Menouer 22, Camille Mimoun 6, Anthony Moureau 24, Antoine Netter 4, Charles-André Philip 29, Pascal Rousset 30, Claire Sanson 31, Isabelle Thomassin-Naggara 32, Cyril Touboul 16, Jean Levêque 24ABSTRACT |
Concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT) followed by brachytherapy is the standard of care for locally advanced cervical cancer. However, post-treatment management remains challenging. Accurate response assessment is essential because it informs subsequent management, particularly the indication for completion surgery. Radiation-induced tissue changes may impair the reliability of clinical examination and conventional imaging, while the respective roles of advanced imaging modalities and completion surgery remain debated. Functional lumbopelvic MRI incorporating diffusion-weighted and perfusion sequences is the reference imaging modality for response assessment and provides greater diagnostic performance than clinical examination alone. FDG PET-CT offers complementary information, particularly regarding nodal disease and early metabolic response, but the routine combination of FDG PET-CT with MRI has not been shown to improve diagnostic accuracy. MRI performed early during CRT may help differentiate responders from nonresponders based on changes in the apparent diffusion coefficient. However, the optimal timing of MRI after treatment completion remains uncertain. Available evidence does not support the routine use of conization for response assessment. Completion surgery provides no prognostic benefit and increases morbidity in patients with squamous cell carcinoma who achieve a complete response after CRT and brachytherapy. Evidence remains insufficient to establish its role in adenocarcinoma. When completion surgery is indicated, delaying the procedure until at least 6–8 weeks after CRT may reduce postoperative morbidity. Simple hysterectomy should be favored over radical hysterectomy, which increases morbidity without improving survival. Current evidence demonstrates no superiority of minimally invasive surgery or laparotomy in terms of oncologic outcomes or overall morbidity.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer, Concurrent CRTand Brachytherapy, Post-Therapeutic Response, Completion surgery
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