1. Sentinel nodes in vulvar cancer: Long-term follow-up of the GROningen INternational Study on Sentinel nodes in Vulvar cancer (GROINSS-V) I
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H. C. van Doorn, Vanna Zanagnolo, Karl Tamussino, Ingo B. Runnebaum, J.A. de Hullu, van der Ate Zee, G. H. de Bock, Brigitte F. M. Slangen, Ignace Vergote, E. Van Dorst, Ralph H. Hermans, Diane Provencher, Katja N. Gaarenstroom, Maaike H. M. Oonk, J. van der Velden, te Nienke Grootenhuis, Peter Baldwin, J. W. Trum, Targeted Gynaecologic Oncology (TARGON), Damage and Repair in Cancer Development and Cancer Treatment (DARE), Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Basic and Translational Research and Imaging Methodology Development in Groningen (BRIDGE), Obstetrics and gynaecology, CCA -Cancer Center Amsterdam, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Physiology, ICaR - Heartfailure and pulmonary arterial hypertension, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Obstetrie & Gynaecologie, MUMC+: MA Medische Staf Obstetrie Gynaecologie (9), RS: FHML non-thematic output, and RS: GROW - R2 - Basic and Translational Cancer Biology
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Long term follow up ,medicine.medical_treatment ,MULTICENTER ,Vulva ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being ,Biopsy ,medicine ,RECURRENCE ,Long-term follow-up ,Vulvar neoplasm ,030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Groin ,Vulvar cancer ,business.industry ,urogenital system ,Mortality rate ,Wide local excision ,Obstetrics and Gynecology ,WOMEN ,General Medicine ,Sentinel node ,medicine.disease ,female genital diseases and pregnancy complications ,Women's cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 17] ,Surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Oncology ,Inguinofemoral Lymphadenectomy ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,SURVIVAL ,PATTERNS ,BIOPSY ,SQUAMOUS-CELL CARCINOMA ,business - Abstract
Objective. In 2008 GROINSS-V-I, the largest validation trial on the sentinel node (SN) procedure in vulvar cancer, showed that application of the SN-procedure in patients with early-stage vulvar cancer is safe. The current study aimed to evaluate long-term follow-up of these patients regarding recurrences and survival. Methods. From2000 until 2006 GROINSS-V-I included 377 patientswith unifocal squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva (T1
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- 2016
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