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CASE REPORT
Role of metastasectomy and chemotherapy in carcinoma of uterine cervix
  1. Nasir Ali,
  2. Muhammad Atif Mansha,
  3. Ahmed Nadeem Abbasi,
  4. Bilal Mazhar Qureshi
  1. Department of Oncology, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Muhammad Atif Mansha, atifmanshamd{at}gmail.com

Summary

Squamous cell carcinoma of uterine cervix is potentially a curable disease; however, many patients treated with definitive chemoradiotherapy develop distant metastases, with few of them having a single metastatic deposit. There are no guidelines for the treatment of patients with oligometastatic cervical cancer.

We present a case of a patient with International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) Stage IIB squamous cell carcinoma of uterine cervix. She was successfully treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy with definitive intent. One year later, she developed a solitary pulmonary nodule for which she underwent resection followed by chemotherapy. She is free of any local or distant disease at 5 years of regular follow-up.

  • gynecological cancer
  • cervical cancer

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221153

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors NA is the primary oncologist of the patient. ANA assisted in finalizing the treatment plan of this patient. MAM and BMQ contributed significantly in writing the report.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.